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At least two of these saloon buildings still exist. I know because I've been in them, and recognized them from the photographs. Clancy's in Skagway is now the
by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
At least two of these saloon buildings still exist. I know because I've been in them, and recognized them from the photographs.
Clancy's in Skagway is now the Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith Parlor Museum: https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/jeffsmithsparlor.htm https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/jeffsmithsparl...
I'm a bit unsure about the picture labeled 'Cowboy Bar, Jackson WY, 1908'. I've been in the Cowboy Bar (now known as the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar https://www.milliondollarcowboybar.com/blog/history-of-the-million-dollar-cowboy-bar https://www.milliondollarcowboybar.com/blog/history-of-the-m...). The dimensions of the room in the picture match the Cowboy bar, but in 1908 that building was a doctor's office and bank (https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/valley/columnists/cowboy-bar-was-site-of-wild-fun-in-the-day/article_310e89c3-b788-57aa-a1b5-bbd5ff0fb103.html https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/valley/columnists/cowboy-bar-...). If you look closely at the picture, you will notice that the outfits of the patrons, and especially of the bartenders, appear to be from a later era than 1908. The stencils on the bar seem very similar to a picture of the cowboy bar from the 1940s. I suspect that the picture labeled 1908 is actually from around 1940, but I'm pretty sure it is actually of the Cowboy bar in Jackson WY (or Ruby's beer garden, the prior business at that location).