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Bedrock of the Community
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Has anyone here ever visited the Silver Dollar Bar in Jackson Hole, WY and viewed the 2000+ Morgans imbedded in the bar's countertop?
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Pillar of the Community
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Never been there but what a cool thing to see. In some homes people have made bar tops with coins embedded in plastic resin, I've seen a few but no Morgan/Peace.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, I have been there. The bar is fascinating!
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Bedrock of the Community
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You can Google it for some images.
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Edited by dsking
02/24/2023 10:35 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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From the web...  |
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This is on my personal list of "places to visit" if I ever have time/money to do so. When I was a kid, the restaurant/bar Judge Roy Bean's in Dallas had lots of Morgan dollars embedded in both the bar tops and the dining area tables. They also were well-known for a couple of other things (besides amazing chocolate cake and the oil well pumper in the parking lot) -- you could write on a dollar bill and they would staple it to the wall, and they had a Lionel train that ran around the top of the wall throughout the restaurant, just below the ceiling, complete with a whistle and "steam" engine. Lots of cool stuff in that place, I was sad when they shut it down and wish I knew what happened to the tables. They had some other nice stuff I would have loved to own now, such as a 5c Bell Fruit Gum slot machine mounted in a wooden Indian statue (pulling the Indian's arm pulled the lever on the slot machine, it worked still and it had a front glass area under the coin slot where you could see the nickels lined up.) Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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I may have been in there a long time ago (late 70s) but it may have been the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar instead - the one with saddles for bar stools. That one also has coins embedded in the bar (internet image). Who knows, I probably stumbled into both of them. I was there again a couple years later and the Cowboy Bar was charging $10 cover because Glen Campbell was there. He wasn't performing, he was just in the bar. We passed. $10 was a lot of money then.  |
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I'm old enough to have been around when silver dollars were still circulating. Montana - summer of 1960 Alaska - early 1964 I still to this day wonder if I had spent any keys or semi-keys  |
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My grandparents used to talk about when they were still in use in the casinos in Reno, NV, and later the Ike dollars, before the widespread introduction of modern-style casino tokens. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Quote:My grandparents used to talk about when they were still in use in the casinos in Reno, NV, and later the Ike dollars... My first two Ikes came from a Vegas casino.  |
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