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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0029
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Bar
TITLE   Unidentified bar
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified bar in Corpus Christi, Texas. A man and two women stand behind the bar; three male customers stand in front of it. The box on the bar is a Punget gaming device (a type of marble game). This bar sold Blue Ribbon, Blatz Old Heidelberg, Grand Prize Lager, and Special Brew Dinklacker beer in addition to tobacco products such as Union Leader tobacco and Roi-Tan and White Owl cigars. A can of pipe tobacco sold for ten cents. The woman in the dark dress is believed to have been a member of the Knipe family. Note the 5¢ sale on the cash register.
SUBJECT   Bars (Drinking establishments). (lcsh)
Bartenders. (lctgm)
Beer signs. (lcsh)
Consumers. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Tobacco products. (lctgm)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Women. (lcsh)