In those days you would get a City job for the summer, if you were connected, with the Parks Department. You would report at 7 and start drinking at 10:30, the guy, city employee, you worked for operated on the rule, you buy or you work. Booze was cheap so the option was taken, the only problem was getting him back to the city garage at quitting time.
I did miss the occasion when my Brother in Laws Father, Nutsy, tossed a paving block through the window after they shut him off at the bar. Then again he was the only person I ever knew that got shut off at Skals, so that kind of behavior was expected.
Wow, you were there during the hay-days.
Its actually a really nice place now. Alot of Seniors go there so when I went in, it dropped the median age by about 53 years.
You also have to be careful of the oxygen bottles all around.
This is a true story, my GF and I were in there and the owner asked if we could start bringing in some of our friends because their patrons were really starting to kick off in large numbers.
Its nice to know that city workers never change.