Interior of Billy Shannon's Saloon. Pictures of prize fighters on the walls; Billy behind the bar; the beer towels hanging ...

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

BANC PIC 1905.17500.47:182--ALB

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Full title: Interior of Billy Shannon's Saloon. Pictures of prize fighters on the walls; Billy behind the bar; the beer towels hanging on the bar were for wiping foam off moustaches (Graves says that the rejoinder to young men who pretended to be drunker than they were was, "Aw, get on to yourself, somebody slapped you with a beer towel"); goboons (a dexterous beer drinker could blow the foam off his beer right into one).

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