All I know is that Dutch always has a plan

As a resident of Northern Nevada, I would like to point out that a lot of old saloons are still in operation in Virginia City. Not to mention that gambling and brothels are not outlawed in Nevada, so we’ve got plenty of, for lack of a better term, “modern saloons” where you can gamble while you drink at the bar and then go to bed with a worker of the night afterwards.

I frequent a still standing Saloon from the 1800s. The same wood floors, and structure. The bar has newspaper clips from the 1800s covered in epoxy to protect and display them. I really enjoy the atmosphere there over other bars in the area.

I recognize one of the saloons featured. It's in Deadwood, S.D. We went there on our Honeymoon 46 yrs ago. Awesome place to visit. There is an entire block (or 2) set up exactly like the 1800's. Employees wore the clothes of that era. Dirt roads, horses, sassafrass...

Saloons in reality: mostly chill sometimes violent Saloons in movies: guy walks in asking for a drink random gunfight breaks out

I've always imagined the whiskey at those saloons was absolutely gut wrenching.

As a teacher in Fort Worth Tx, the Social Studies dept decided that a nice project would be to help the second graders research the streets surrounding the schools. I said that I really couldn't do that. I got a look. "Why not?" Our school was in the notorious Hell's Half Acre part of Fort Worth. The streets around our school were named after 3 famous Madams from back in the day.

Instead of spitoons some 1890's saloons had a brass or tin trough that ran the length of the bar and angled downhill. It served double duty as yes a spitoon but also as a urinal so serious drinkers could relieve their bladders without giving up a choice spot at the bar. The Log Cabin bar in Ashland Oregon had one that ran into Lithia Creek out back. those were the good old days. The last time I was there it had become a Frat boy hangout, a modern tragedy.

Why can't history classes be as fun as this?

So many Wild West high-noon show-down shoot-outs could have been prevented, if only the towns had been made big enough.

What I love is not only the video is a piece of history, but all your stories in the comments! Thank you and god bless!

I love this! i am absolutley obssed with wierd history.... its so interesting and i love learning all the facts.....thank you for doing what you do!

I never understood in films when a cowboy says, "gimme a drink" and no one ever pays for their drink

I work at a place called The White Front bar here in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. It was built in 1880 and still has the original bar back. Trust me when I say that saloons did not disappear!

There is no better history channel!!...simple the best!!!.keep up the excellent work!!! Got a real fan here!! che

A+ video! This video explains so much of the Wild West culture and how this instituion was part of everyday life!

As an rpg world builder this video adds wonderfully to the thought process in making new towns. I never try to start with how it looks now, I try to build it in my head from the first buildings. Never even thought about the style of the saloon or tavern being different everywhere, or that they don't START in their permanent building. I love that stuff! Thanks for the upload!!

"The Boston Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada" *what*

Thank you for the reference material. I'm putting together a western game and spending a lot of time with this content in the background.

There was a Bar on every corner is what I was told about our Neighborhood . As a Kid growing up you could see where they were and the ones still open. Americas first Boom town The young Lion of the West . The Erie Canal was 2 blocks over and brought a lot of Traffic . Locks a Mile down and Boat yards in both Directions Congested the Traffic . It was a Defacto Port on the Canal . Once the Chaos was perfected here it was shipped out West as the Frontier moved West . Thank you for the Video .

Ah the good old days. You know, when you could leave your house, socialize and drink with other people

"what´s your job?" " im a mixologist" "sounds fancy, where do you work at?" "the stripclub down the street"

This is such a great channel so well written and narrated. Also the crystal palace saloon in tombstone is worth a visit!

I really enjoy all the things you tell about!!! I love the extra comments you make ☺️

I like how the saloon was also occasionally a voting booth and house of worship . Talk about wearing a lot of hats. I really enjoy the old west videos. They are fascinating to me.

Looking at photos of old saloons convinced me that the biggest difference between reality and the Hollywood version of it is money. Saloons used to be cheap, crude places, with few exceptions. Hollywood saloons typically are filled with expensive glass and mirrors and art, stuff that was rarely seen in rough cattle towns. Hollywood saloons almost invariably include a pianist who performs Camptown Ladies or other classics flawlessly. There weren't a lot of professional musicians of any sort in old saloons.

This is an excellent channel. Thank you.

That was really good, thank you!

Whenever I go into an Old West saloon I end up losing my friend Lenny. Lenny! Lenny? Lenay?!?

Nothing like waking up too your videos in the morning...

Saloons sometines had a 'flow through spitoon', a trough along the front of the bar with running water used for washing away spit and quite often for taking a leak. One of these still remaining is The Brick in Roslyn, Washington. If you were a fan of the sitcom Northern Exposure from the 1990's you've seen it before. It was used for some interior shots and for the opening credits where a stylized apostrophe s was added onto the outdoor mural reading 'Roslyn Tavern' to make it into 'Roslyn's Tavern'.

As a resident of Northern Nevada I want to thank you for saying Nevada correctly... Thank you! It drives me nuts when it is said wrong. I knew I would love this video! So glad I clicked!

This is the channel that I’ve been looking for, a history channel with random yet educational information

“Happy hour” at sports bars or restaurants are as close as we get to Saloons.

Just subscribed. Love your vids. all really interesting. Cheers. From New Zealand.

I live in Wichita Kansas, an old Cowtown and we have a really neat living museum where a few old buildings have fully restored and actors walk around in full costume during operation. They have an old general goods store, barber shop, school, a few houses, a black smith’s shop, and of a saloon. On select nights they even serve alcohol and a lot of folks come out in their own rustic costumes, it’s really neat

I literally live in the old west, we still have a real saloon in downtown directly across from the courthouse and adjoining the old jail from the 1800s.

I remember when I started drinking aged 17 back in 70's Liverpool, England a lot of bars had changed little from Edwardian times and were like wild west saloons, (especially Yates's Winelodges). Wooden panneling, bare wooden floors sometimes covered in sawdust. Tables and chairs in such poor condition that noone would dream of stealing them. Toilets sometimes unspeakably filthy and vandalized by drunks, (a smashed toilet seat was not uncommon). Mostly male clientele. Unaccompanied women invariably prostitutes. Wares of dubious origin were sold with impunity. Also more rowdy than bars are today: late at night things would get loud and lively, fruit machines chiming, juke boxes playing; lot's of men staggeringly drunk, and on an average night you could be almost guaranteed a bar fight. I look back with a mix of nostalgia and disgust.

Thank you for mentioning James Earp, older half-brother to the better known Virgil and Wyatt. The claim is that there were 100 saloons on Allen Street, Tombstone at one time. Most of them; a tent, a couple of kegs and some planks for a bar. I note a mention of Virginia City. Visiting? Find out if the Comstock Cowboys will be playing at the Bucket of Blood Saloon. They are good.

Love the shout out to my City of Fort Worth Texas. The White Elephant Saloon still exist in the historic stockyard section of the City.

They said that they put sawdust on the floor saloons to soak up tobacco juice and when somebody hit the floor for whatever reason, that's where we got the expression Another One Bites the Dust.

Appearing right as I'm about to raise hell in Valentine in hopes of taking the sheriff's bolt action 😂

It's been a little while since I've been to a bar. Depending on where you live here in Mexico there aren't any little neighborhood bars or cantinas like you might expect. You have to stock up at Costco or Walmart for a variety of libations. But good Mexican beer is for sale everywhere and it's cheap. The local Oxxo convenience store is Mexico's Circle K. They're everywhere just like Circle K. Decent selection of beer. It was better before Covid. I just drink at home with the neighbors or alone. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a little neighborhood bar here. But it's all good. Viva Mexico! 🇺🇸✌🇲🇽

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My favourite channel! Thanks for continuing to create weird history content. Also love the narrator. He's my favourite!

I live in Fort Worth, Texas and have been to the White Elephant Saloon. It's a tourist trap now. Too expensive for a local bar. But thanks for mentioning us four times.

I don't know how long i have been subscribed to this channel, but I never get notifications, which is too bad, because I really like what you do.

If anyone is looking for a good book that describes saloon and frontier life, George Hand's diary is an excellent resource. He was a saloon keeper in Tucson from 1874-1877 and witnessed many famous events during that time.

Weird History videos always make my day better. You have no idea how much they lift me. Thank you 🙏🏻

In Tombstone, there is a preserved saloon, 'Bird Cage', that had ladies of the night performing and entertaining guests (behind the curtain 😉). I love your videos. Thank you. 😊

Four Fingers of Redeye! Congratulations on this entertaining and informative video, mate!

Whiskey Row in Preskitt, AZ. The most famous saloon? The Palace A-1 or A-1 Palace; the Earps and Doc were regular patrons while Kate ran the brothels in the back. The Palace was the only 2-story saloon as its brothel was upstairs.

Nevada smalls towns never changed, still like it. We are the heart of the west. Best roadtrip state. Visit Virginia City, bars with bullet holes still in them. Visit Beatty, NV, Caliente,Nv. Nevada is so much more than Vegas. Plus, legal brothels still, Vegas does not offer that, and you can smoke anywhere you like

"Throw a drink InTo her" said a true man... 😭

Could you do a video on Virginia City, NV? I live and was raised in Reno, NV which is 35 to 40 min away from Virginia City. I often visit VC, NV and stay a few days doing ghost investigations. Love it and adore Virginia City. Truly is one of its kind and very intriguing part of Wild West History.

really something to be proud of, djeez.

"The Wild West: Where men were men, and women and farm animals were nervous!"

I live 20 min away from Virginia City 💖 they keep the little town almost exactly as it was back then, & a lot of saloons there still opened.

Langtry,tx .the "jersey Lilly ".. I felt Deja vu when I bellied up to the bar.. Judge Roy bean created a fine establishment

Some of the old pubs in Paisley/Glasgow scotland were like this, just mad house's but never a dull moment

Thanks for an Old West topic! Would love if you could do one on the forensic practices of the Old West. For example, how they found murderers when there were no witnesses. Thanks! Love your channel!

2am in Australia thank you for the bedtime upload xxoo keep safe drink lots of water

So nothing has changed from them until now. Great video, thanks.

Best little saloon is in Luckenbach, Texas! Not just beer, but Great fun!

Red Dead Redemption players: Yeah, we know.

Smash, smash, for the love of Jesus smash! is now my favourite quote, nice delivery too...

In the early days of prohibition, you could drink in North Dakota, but purchase & sale were illegal. Montana was still alcohol friendly for several more years. In the border town of Mondak, one of the saloons actually straddled the state line. You could walk over to the bar on the MT side & purchase your drink, then you were able to walk back and take a seat at your table in ND where it was still legal to consume. 🍺

Super intéressent votre vidéo. Même que je l'ai regardé deux fois. 👍👍

So the Saloon was like the modern day Walmart?

"I'll meet you at the saloon" "Which one?" "The second one on the right after the fourth on the left" "OK"

didnt even realize that was mark until you zoomed in onto his face, Very great addition lol. 2:48

This guys voice makes everything better

The pub I used to work in was built around 1890, and still has the original bar and many of the original fittings like stained glass and decorative lights, to this day it still has the feel of an old Saloon. Supposedly it even has several ghosts including that of the former lady of the night if you catch my meaning ;) Theres a brilliant photo of it you can Google from back in the day that looks straight out of a Western, even though it's in South Wales. Creigiau Hotel, now the Creigiau Inn. Pretty cool.

My boyhood neighbor in the early 1960's told me of his boyhood in Montana in the early 1900's. He started to talk of saloons in those days, open every day at all hours. One early Sunday morning found him delivering a bundle of newspapers to a Saloon, which he liked because he had to go inside and throw the papers up onto the bar. As he walked in his attention was drawn to a table of three cowboys playing cards. A voice was loud, one cowboy arose from the chair, shots rang out and all three were dead. The Marshall was called, and then the undertaker, the newspaper photographer came, the bodies of all three laid out on the wooden sidewalk as the photographer took photos. They had been playing cards and drinking all night, one had been shot above the table, two below the table. Of course in the excitement he had lost all sense of time and realized he was late for getting back to home to prepare for Church. Then his mother arrived, ascertained the display of the godless upon the wooden sidewalk and collected her son, directing him by a firm grip upon his ear, his satchel of newspapers thrown upon the ground. And so he said, that was how his career as a paperboy ended and his parents and he became Baptists.

I was in pinos altos on new years eve 2000. I had dinner with friends at the famous and still operating Buckhorn saloon. After a great prime rib dinner we stayed for drinks with the locals. At the stroke of midnight the entire bar simultaneously erupts into a full on saloon fight. Men, women, flying drinks and swinging barstools. My friends and I watched the 20 min maylay without anyone approaching us. After it was over we found out that's how the locals settle their difference at the end of the year.

Having my hometown mentioned multiple times in one video is pretty cool. Ft worth for life!

I WAS A PATRON IN THE 1980's OF THE "GOLDEN SPIKE SALOON" IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TAHOMA, FROM THE CITY OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ON PLACER COUNTY...............IT WAS A GREAT PLACE !!!!

Glad to have a piece of this history in my town still in operation. The Occidental in Buffalo Wyoming. It's like stepping back in time.

The liquor of the Wild West era wasn’t really like the liquor of today. The liquor back then was quite different in strength, ingredients, and in chemical composition. Moreover, the drinks back then weren’t always as safe as you find nowadays. The hygiene standards back then were quite different than today, including in the production of food and drinks.

Love that name, The Boston Saloon in Virginia City Nevada. I actually remember hearing about it on the radio in my BMW Tesla Silverado.

Read Dickens of the North West mounted police. It's the biography of one of Charles Dickens illegitimate sons who joined the newly formed North West mounted police in Canada. His aim was to write his exploits in a book and get rich. Sadly died before he could do that, but he tells of going to an American Western town saloon, meeting sitting bull, etc. It's a great read.

Hi Weird History, can you make a video about weird facts about the infamous outlaw "Billy The Kid " Thanks 😊

According to Mark Twain (Sam Clemens, of course), the barkeep was often the leading citizen of a mining town.

5. A.m in the morning and I saw this in my suggestion it's a keeper I'm a subscriber now .TEXAS BORN

Free peanuts kept them drinking, and the shells protected the floors too.

Laughed so hard on Zuckerberg's face on that bartender:')))

Amazing vid

Very Good Show -Like being there

"Go ahead throw a drink in to her." Ahhhh, not since Willie Shakespeare have I heard such eloquence!

I always expect a drunk guy passed out with a bottle of xxx on the table 🤔🤔

“Have you seen a fellow named Lenny?”

Very informative and entertaining.

Even 200 years ago San Francisco felt like it had to flaunt it's flair.

Keep up the excellent videos

Wow. Been thinking about this for a week now and this just shows up in my recommended

I was waiting for a bus in Pendleton and got to talking with an old Cayuse gentleman. He talk about riding horses all the Blues. He said that he tried going to church, but the snobbery and drove him off, but he always felt welcome in a bar. I am not much of a drinker, but like going to bars. Especially ones with a smoking section. Smokers are friendlier than the morally superior.

2:46 For a moment I thought someone looking like Mark Zuckerberg owned a saloon.

Damn, Maulda branscomb is the person you should not mess with.

@weird history Love your channel very much! Thank you for that! What about gunfights? Were they really frequent and like, "Draw Partner" like in the movies and on a regular basis or is that just fist full of nonsense?

Wild Bill Hickok was our home town hero and Shereif here in Abilene Kansas. Carrie Nations made a run through Kansas and tore this place up!!!