With a growing overcapacity, breweries began to adopt the British 'tied-house' system of control where they owned saloons outright. began to have a close association with breweries in the early 1880s. The word saloon originated as an alternative form of salon, 'Meaning 'large hall in a public place for entertainment, etc.'' In the United States it evolved into its present meaning by 1841. Some saloons in the Old West were little more than casinos, brothels, and opium dens. In Leavenworth, Kansas, there were 'about 150 saloons and four wholesale liquor houses'. īy 1880, the growth of saloons was in full swing. The first saloon was established at Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822, to serve fur trappers. A saloon might also be known as a 'watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina, grogshop, and gin mill'. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers.
1900Ī Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. The Jersey Lilly, Judge Roy Bean's saloon in Langtry, Texas, c.
