A celebration of the nineteenth-century saloon, written with sly humor during Prohibition.
Described by Luc Sante as "a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bullwinkle," George Ade was an early twentieth-century humorist beloved by many, even earning praise from H.L. Mencken. During the waning years of Prohibition, he wrote The Old-Time Saloon-both a work of propaganda masquerading as "just history" and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia that let booze-deprived readers of the day know just what they were missing.
Featuring original, vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage, Ade's book takes us back to the long-gone men's clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the pretzels were polished, and the sardines were free.
