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Title: John Lang Saloon
Description: Exterior, street level view of the John Lang Saloon with person seated in buggy on the street at the front. Sign above door reads "Muehlebach's Beer." Located at 2427 Holmes.
Date: 1900~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: This is Your Father's Bar
Description: Article announces the retirement of Waldo bar owner, Bobby Baker. Baker is interviewed and describes how his father and longtime tavern owner, Johnny Baker, was connected to the Pendergast political machine as well as his own decision to enter the bar business. Baker states that his daughter, Becky Hamrich, will take over the popular bar in 2013.
Date: 2012-12-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Roadhouse Blues
Description: Article reviews B.B.'s Lawnside Barbeque, located at 1205 E. 85th Street. The author also discusses the history of the restaurant's location, which was for many years outside of city limits and known for its exotic, all-night party atmosphere.
Date: 2002-12-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Missouri Tavern
Description: Photos, illustrations, and article about the role of "the Missouri tavern" in the settlement of pioneers in the state, with the tavern "serv[ing] as home and mart, court and forum."
Date: 1921-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Visit to the Matthews-Cogswell Tavern Near Buckner, Mo.
Description: Manuscript (number 18) about the history of the tavern, "built in 1855 or 1857," started by Cogswell and inherited by his son-in-law Matthews.
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Story of the Chevis-Samuel Tavern: Now in Missouri Town 1855
Description: Article about the Chevis-Samuel tavern, also called the Chevis tavern, "built in the year 1822 by George Burnett in the little town of Barry," Missouri, in Platte County, Missouri, and later moved to the tourist site of Missouri Town 1855 at Lake Jacomo. Photos and descriptions of the Chevis family and the Samuel family, including a story told about 1830s Platte County settlers by "Arnold Chance, one of the old settlers" and a story told by "Mrs. Melinda Estes, an early settler of Clay county who was born in 1808," about the early settlers of the region in 1820.
Date: 1965-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Neighborhood Taverns: Refuge and Warmth in an Often Cold World
Description: Article about the social role in the city of neighborhood taverns, with singalongs and atmospheres "like sitting at home with friends."
Date: 1978-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photo and caption about the Arrow Rock Tavern, "[b]uilt in 1830, and continuously in use since then; [r]estored in 1925."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport's No. 1 Romance
Description: Illustrations and article about Daniel Yoacham's mid-19th century "log tavern at Mill Street and Main Street in the village of Westport," an "eastern terminus of the great Santa Fe Trail" and the site of the courtship of Mamie Bernard and Don Epifanio Aguirre, a Mexican trader.
Date: 1945-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: An Historic Landmark Preserved for Posterity
Description: Article about the preservation of the historic old Arrow Rock Tavern.
Date: 1924-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Picked to ''Carry A. Nation''
Description: Biographical article describing the life of prohibition activist and speaker, Carry A. Nation. Nation was born in 1846 in Kentucky, moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1889, and by 1900 was engaged in a crusade for temperance.
Date: 2005-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

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