Saloon

December 18th, 2010 by admin

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  1. conner:

    January 8th, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Uh oh, are they abolishing the bar car?? I have many fond memories of smoking cigs and swiggin back beers on the GCT to Mamaroneck route as a young ‘un

    ah, suburban culture. gotta love it!

  2. Marcus:

    January 18th, 2011 at 8:54 am

    There was also the distinction in a British pub that the Saloon Bar was considered to be for the ladies, to protect their delicate ears from any rough and ribald conversation that may have been going on in the (male dominated) Public Bar.
    The fact that the publican’s side of the bar often stretched across both rooms, offering no barrier whatsoever to sound transmission, seems not to have unduly worried either side.

  3. Tom:

    July 27th, 2015 at 8:06 am

    An extremely verbose, but entertaining explanation, I had been quite curious as to why such a fancy name for a mid range auto. Probably in the same vein as life in prison to the brits can mean 5 years and out in 3, while in American it means you leave in a box.

  4. Greenleaf:

    December 2nd, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    Any chance that the “loon” part of the word was a play on words of the era?

  5. Guy:

    October 28th, 2020 at 7:07 am

    @GREENLEAF I would suggest that the “loon” part came from Americans attempting to pronounce “salon”.

  6. Philip:

    January 26th, 2021 at 4:35 am

    Bar cars on Metro-North trains to Mamaroneck (and Old Greenwich)? I never once saw or knew of a one, despite regular trips from GCT to Scarsdale all throughout the ’70s and early ’80s, both accompanied by parents and not.

    Boy, I guess the New Haven line was where the party was; we were forced to just sit in dull sobriety on the Harlem-Hudson (now just “Harlem”) line.

  7. Philip:

    January 26th, 2021 at 5:17 am

    Oh, my, I just read Evan’s obituary. My respects and condolences. Over many years, I have been only a very infrequent visitor to this site, but it saddens me to learn that he died, and that no more of his well-crafted answers will be forthcoming, bringing as they did both levity and knowledge to logophiles and regular folk alike.

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