{"id":137895,"date":"2019-02-21T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/saloon-doors.html"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:35:06","slug":"saloon-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/saloon-doors.html","title":{"rendered":"Saloon Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that, for all the Westerns I&#39;ve seen, the question of &quot;How did saloons lock up for the night when they just had those swinging doors in front?&quot; never occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: most saloons in the Old West didn&#39;t actually have those silly little doors, and those that did just had larger doors that could be closed in front of them to lock up at night (or address the cold of winter).<\/p>\n<p>And now you know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/78758\/how-did-saloons-old-west-lock-their-doors-night'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yWw6B-E2K5zj95T-HCSkKuR7yI6QAlTWFArqRi2Dfmz3BYUr81oD50Z9db-3duhpBmFn9rfoYoLGQgHFjDdH_iBwF-fw2K6YLZDBoohdJyEfMWi08WnzW9N0WEys7weQqFytSV4IsFz-Py0x6kNB5lDKvbM0p6G-CV8NfD4mVa3gIot1W5fiKBgx=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/78758\/how-did-saloons-old-west-lock-their-doors-night'>How Did Saloons in the Old West Lock Their Doors at Night?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhat stopped no-good varmints from crawling underneath the doors?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3g4NsrrMAdF'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that, for all the Westerns I&#39;ve seen, the question of &quot;How did saloons lock up for the night when they just had those swinging doors in front?&quot; never occurred to me. Short answer: most saloons in the Old West didn&#39;t actually have those silly little doors, and those that did just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/saloon-doors.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saloon Doors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7109,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/home_improvemen.html","url_meta":{"origin":137895,"position":0},"title":"Home improvement log","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Oct-04 6:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Done (while I was home yesterday): Installed trim around the new back doors, interior and exterior. 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