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Ms. Priddy's campers will meet at an undisclosed location in the desert about 125 miles from Las Vegas, near a Western-style saloon that she said often attracts car testers.
Elsewhere there's a golf course (the world's lowest), a Wild West-style saloon and general store (the only one for over 30 miles) and stables tended to by a Stetson-wearing cowboy called Tony.
"Hernando's Hideaway" becomes a pop-jazz star turn, and Mr. Connick treats the show's most substantial ballad, "A New Town Is a Blue Town," as a Sinatra-style saloon song.
Its decor is almost exactly as it would have been back in the 1950s, with a saloon style bar and chandeliers on the ceilings.
Divey dim sum halls and late-night noodle shops are giving way to boutiques, pricey wine bars and speakeasy-style saloons.
On Main Avenue, window displays bristle with cowboy boots and turquoise jewelry, frontier-style saloons feature waitresses in period costume, and the old steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad hollers as it rolls into the station.
In Aberdeen, which even now has Wild West-style saloons and card rooms, new bands cut their teeth at the Pour House, a wooden tavern where the men wear tattoos and mean it.
The old-style saloons disappeared; drinking at home became much more frequent; drinking among women, who had previously found saloon culture uncongenial, indeed hostile, became more common; drinking became regularised, normalised, and eventually an accepted part of "polite" society – by the 1950s cocktails were seen as the height of civilisation in many middle-class homes.
In 1993, the association unsuccessfully opposed Doc Holliday's, Mr. McWater's saloon-style bar and restaurant at Ninth Street and Avenue A, as it prepared to open.
