"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> "limey" > wrote
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>> I don't know how it is now in English pubs. What I do remember was that
>> small kids
>> weren't allowed in (I don't know the age span). I used to think it was
>> very sad to see small kids outside the pub, idling around, while parents
>> were inside enjoying their pint or having a sing-song. I hope that has
>> stopped.
>
> Heh, when I was a kid, my father would go into the NCO club and have a
> few beers, we'd hang out outside watching the Verrazano Bridge being
> built, or go run around the track, or just hang out munching on cheese
> doodles
> or something. I had fun.
>
> nancy
When I was 4, (around 1939) I can remember my (country) folks taking me in
a beer joint in WV. They sat me right up on the beer stool -- oops, I meant
bar stool -- there was a one-harm bandit nailed to the wall with
bright-colored lemons and oranges and I asked what it was. I don't recall
what the answer was, but no one was playing it.

DH & I as children of an older adult, we take f-i-l to Fox Woods Casino and
drop him off FOR HOURS. Then we go do things like this, go to the shore and
bother fishermen.
http://tinypic.com/fuaoad.jpg
Those bar days are over for us. But yes, they were fun.
Dee Dee