The Old-Time Saloon

A celebration of the nineteenth-century saloon, written with sly humor during Prohibition: “A gem for gentlemen and gentlewomen who enjoy a tipple.”— Toronto Star   Described by Luc Sante as “a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bullwinkle ,” George Ade was an early twentieth-century humorist beloved by many, even earning praise from H.L. Mencken. During the waning years of Prohibition, he wrote The Old-Time Saloon —both a work of propaganda masquerading as “just history” and a hilarious exercis