Other SoMa venues that bears frequent include everyone's favourite biker bar, the Hole In The Wall Saloon, Powerhouse and men-only "social" club Blow Buddies.
Drinking and dining with a water view is a basic right of all Miamians -- whether it's at haute cuisine hideaways or hole-in-the-wall saloons.
On the set, by G. W. Mercier, you can see through the walls of the saloon to the chaos outside.
For my last night, I splashed out on a stay at Lake Crescent Lodge, a 1916 hunting lodge with elk heads on the walls, a panelled saloon and a lake where the sun sets behind tree-lined mountains.
The men are also obliged to take spelling and counting lessons on weekdays, using the signs on the saloon walls and the playing cards with numbers on them as their schoolbooks.
Bleached skulls were tacked to the outside wall of a stage-set saloon; rusting wagon wheels leaned at angles.
That's right, if the Dodgers and Angels meet in a World Series, we'd have to build more saloons just to handle the wall-to-wall excitement.
Half an hour after the news gets ou there won't be a thing left in the saloons but the bars walls.
Only the Victorians tried to complicate matters with separate parlours and saloons based on class.Their walls and screens survive, but reflect different attitudes.
Pretty much everyone congregates at Los Ojos Saloon, where various guns, pelts and horns are mounted as decoration and every night there is a wall of locals at the bar throwing back some pints.
Kick back inside the two-dimensional saloon, improbably pasted wall-to-wall inside the 42nd Street Shuttle, whose heaps of fake jugs and bottles ensure the bar will never be bare.
