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...Prohibition corner saloon was the closest approximation of the pub, a bastion of masculine fellowship, with free lunch, gleaming spittoons, and an opulent nude over the bar. But what came back after Prohibition was mixed drinking and the thick-carpeted, chromium-cold cocktail lounge. Now, in a reach to recapture some of the old clubby atmosphere, bar-and-grills across the U.S. are making a stab at introducing the English (or Irish or Scottish) pub...
...most popular is Charley O's in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. It is not a pub that any Irishman would recognize but, as Restaurant & Waldorf Associates puts it, "the kind of pub an Irishman might like to open if he came to New York." The owners poked about Dublin absorbing atmosphere, installed kegs of Irish Harp beer on draft in order to create what the owners like to think is "a womb with a brew." Somehow the globe lamps, corned-beef and 5? meatball sandwiches, and stand-up tables seem to have done the trick...
Bowling on the Green. Other pub owners have gone all out for authenticity. Before opening the Blue Boar in Los Angeles' fashionable restaurant row on La Cienega, Bernard G. Tohl and his wife spent months researching historic pubs in London, copied the best features of 100 of them in the Boar...
...Francisco's White Horse Taverne prides itself on being a faithful copy of the Edinburgh original. The Golden Bee in Colorado Springs' Broadmoor Hotel is not a copy; it's the real thing-a 150-year-old English pub that had been dismantled and shipped to New York, where the hotel's decorators found it gathering dust in a warehouse...
Where Borstal Boy ended, Confessions begins: the teen-age I.R.A. demolitions expert, discharged from British reform school and launched on the short, sputtering, sodden, prison-checkered career that led down a hill to fame and death. It reads like a drunk shouting in a pub, happy as only such a man can be, and only half-remembering, not entirely clear in his mind what he wants to say. But the infectious Behan rhythm is unmistakable, and so is the Behan tongue. Mountjoy Prison, Strangeways Jail, bouts on the Left Bank, a party for a colleen celebrating her abortion, pimping...