How Did Saloons in the Old West Lock Their Doors at Night?
If Hollywood has teach us anything , it ’s that the ubiquitous watering hole that littered the stale trails traversed by thirsty cowboys roundin ’ up those dogies in the Old West all came equipped with “ batwing ” threshold ( technically called “ café doors ” ) flow in the entry . But how in the world could a barkeep protect his livelihood after hours with such a bantam roadblock between his hoard of firewater and the outside macrocosm ?...