| The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History Contributor(s): Ade, George (Author), Savage, Bill (Introduction by), Savage, Bill (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 022641230X ISBN-13: 9780226412306 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - Cooking | Beverages - Alcoholic- General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 647.957 |
| LCCN: 2016017247 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 7.2" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as "just history" and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Savage, Bill: - Bill Savage is associate professor of instruction in the Department of English at Northwestern University.Ade, George: - Born and educated in Indiana but a long-time Chicagoan, George Ade (1866?1944) was a prolific journalist, a Broadway playwright, and a humorist whose newspaper columns, Fables in Slang and Stories of the Streets and of the Town, were syndicated nationally, collected in books, and produced as films, some of which Ade directed. |