Publisher: University of Chicago Press (4 Nov. 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 022641230X
ISBN-13: 978-0226412306
Product Dimensions:12.7 x 1.5 x 18.7 cm
Product 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 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.
Review Much about nineteenth-century saloons may have been sordid and squalid, but Ade knew how to find their charm, even their joy. He s a wonderful reading companion and I bet he would have been pretty great to drink with, too. --Daniel Okrent, author of "Last Call" [One of the] 'Books we can t wait to read: The back half of 2016 edition.' . . . In the early twentieth century, Ade was one of the funniest newspapermen in Chicago.InThe Old-Time Saloon, originally published in the depths of Prohibition, he looks back with great nostalgia on the glory days of the nineteenth-century saloon. --Aimee Levitt and Tal Rosenberg "Chicago Reader "
About the Author 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 Slangand Stories of the Streets and of the Town, were syndicated nationally, collected in books, and produced as films, some of which Ade directed. Bill Savage is associate professor of instruction in the Department of English at Northwestern University, as well as a bartender emeritus.
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