The Village Tavern

by Joyce Wasser

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The Village Tavern

Artist

Joyce Wasser

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Digital Art - Photography

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Taverns throughout American history have produced a particular type of public sphere. In taverns people could mix together: Men drank alongside their employers. Early laws fixed the price that tavern-keepers could charge for a drink, so they couldn’t cater to only wealthy patrons. Add alcohol in there and it changes the way everyone relates to each other. You end up with accelerated relationships and occasionally cantankerous ones. People become more willing to go out and raise hell over things that they might have let go when sober.

Taverns and bars have always been where people share news and discuss it. There’s an unwritten code in most neighborhood bars that people are supposed to check their degrees at the door. You can find a lawyer, university professor, taxi driver and dishwasher all talking about politics, and nobody’s supposed to pull rank.

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June 27th, 2017

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