FReeper Canteen ~ National Happy Hour Day! ~ 12 NOV 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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National Happy Hour Day!

If you’re sitting at your favorite watering hole with a group of buddies chowing down on free or reduced price buffalo wings, chips and salsa, fries and maybe some coconut shrimp with cocktails or beer between 5-7pm on November 12, then you’re right on time for National Happy Hour Day!

Surprisingly, something that most of us associate with fun after work in mostly urban settings, actually got its start with the U.S. Navy as far back as 1914. (However, in 1900 “Happy Hour” social clubs did exist.)

Happy Hours, as we know them today, got started during the early days of the Mexican-American war. During the occupation of Veracruz Harbor, American sailors aboard the U.S.S. Arkansas were the subject of desperate reporters looking to fill out mundane stories after earlier fighting had used up all the exciting copy.

Notices, as in this lead in the “Washington Times” of May 1, 1914, “ ‘The Happy Hour’ Aboard Ship Makes U.S. Tars (short for “tar heels”, a slang for sailors from North Carolina) Contented.” were common. After a busy day, happy hours boosted morale with boxing matches, dancing and drinking. (Although liquor was expressly banned from naval vessels starting in 1899, sailors may have sneaked booze onboard.)

By the end of WWII, happy hours were a “thing.” The relaxing practice had spread throughout U.S. naval fleets. But on April 25, 1959, a “Saturday Evening Post” article popularized, “happy hour” for everybody outside the Navy. According to “Bustle,” an article entitled, “The Men Who Chase Missiles” described the hazards for people who “lived and worked on remote island outposts tracking Cape Canaveral’s missile launches popularized the term.

This day celebrates the fact that it’s five o’clock somewhere! Happy hour is a term primarily used by restaurants and bars in which any visiting customers, between a certain time slot, can purchase discounted drinks and food. Enjoy!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

Dang! I just finished supper and seeing all this food made me hungry again! LOL

[PROCON]

Hi Lauren and thanks for tonight's Canteen!

I think every hour since the election has been a Happy Hour for me! 😁😁

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

AMERICAN PATROL - GLENN MILLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVejLjXVdw

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

FIRST!

[laurenmarlowe]

Indeed PROCON, it has been Happy!

SECOND!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you left that other site!

THIRD!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening UMCRevMom, thank you for the Glenn Miller!

Fun Happy Hour music!

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ National Happy Hour Day! ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Hi Kathy!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *HUGZ*

Everything going well down your way? Did you get through the front passing through the other day without anything more than rain and maybe a little lightning?

[posterchild]

My first experience with ‘happy hours’ was myself and a lovely female coworker occasionally foraging for food and beverages after work on thursdays or fridays in DC’s farragut west area in the mid 1980s.

[radu]

Hoo boy, has it been happy! It’s like a party every day! LOL
My “laugh muscles” have been getting a workout today and tonight. :-)

[MoochPooch]

Evening, Lauren, Kathy. To think that one week ago, it was more like Unhappy Hour.

[left that other site]

Hi Kathy!

(((HUGS)))

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I wish you all the luck getting through the week without monkey wrenches falling in the cogs.

I see it’s a bit colder up there today and will be all week. BRRRRRRR!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi radu!

*HUGS*

We had a couple of good rain days last week, and I hope you did as well!

We had LOTS of thunder and discovered that cat Louie is mighty skittish about those loud booms!

[laurenmarlowe]

Lovely story posterchild, thank you for joining us this evening!

[laurenmarlowe]

“Happy Days Are Here Again!”

We deserve a little celebration for sure.