SALOONS & GAMBLING HALLS.

19th Century

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Colombo Saloon - c1855

1850 "After arriving in town (Columbia), we stopped before a Hotel as it was termed. But it might properly been called a Gambling House, as Gambling was carried on in the highest degree." - David B. Hackman, A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush.*

1850-55 Bassett's Saloon (South of Pioneer Emporium lot).

1851-53 Ferguson's Liquor Store (Pioneer Emporium lot) .

1851 Patterson House Saloon with owners Henry Dawson and John D. Patterson. The saloon was a wood frame building located on the lot of the where J. C. Miller's Carpentry.

1852-54 Captain Raspal's Billiard Saloon (San Francisco Store lot).

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Ferguson's Saloon - 1855
1852-57 Ferguson's Saloon (Pioneer Emporium).

1852 Italian Saloon. Located on State & Main Streets (southeast corner) this lot had a wood structure owned by Luigi Mariet.

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Colombo Saloon - 1855
1853 July 3 - "…in Columbia, some of the large houses are going to serve up great dinners at four dollars a head and in the evening they are going to have a fancy ball which will cost ten dollars for admission….These places are principally patternised(sic) only by gamblers and other fast men and women of the place. On these occasions there is always a great excitement and considerable fighting going on." - David B. Hackman A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush.*

1853-57 Colombo Saloon (so. corner of State & Main).

1853 Doutremont Saloon (Location unsure).

1853-57 H. K. White's Billiard Saloon (Candy Kitchen).

1853 "The Spaniards and Mexicans go in for dancing houses or `Fandangoes', as they are called, but these are tolerable rough places." -David B. Hackman A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush.*

1854-55 Barclay's Saloon AKA Lone Star/Martha's Saloon (California Store lot).

1854 English Ale & Porter House (Location unsure).

1854-57 Morgan's House (City Hotel).

1854-57 Raney's Saloon

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Donnell & Parson's Saloon - 1855
1855-66 Donnell & Parson's Saloon (Location south of blue wagon).

1855 Koch Saloon (Location unsure).

1855 Kossuth Saloon (Fancy Dry Goods).

1855-57 Martha's Place was renamed, Lone Star Saloon & Coffee House (California Store lot).

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Heynemann's Lager Beer Saloon - 1855
1855-61 Haag & (Louis) Heynemann's Lager Beer Saloon AKA San Francisco Lager Beer saloon. (Brown's Coffee & Sweets Saloon).

1855-today What Cheer Saloon. Part of the Morgan House. (City Hotel) 1857 it is called What Cheer House Saloon.

1856-58 High Society Saloon (Mercantile basement). AKA Fire Proof Vault saloon

1856 E. J. Parrott Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 B. Harvey Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 Charles (Chas.) De La Royere's Wine & Liquor Store (Location unsure).

1856 Columbia Lager Beer & Bowling Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 F. Weyer Saloon (Location unsure).

1856-58 Gus. Sturzenegger and Newman's saloon. (Wells, Fargo location and/or at the Columbia House location)

1856 Hanson's Saloon (just south of California Store/Franco barn).

1856-65 Hoerchner Saloon (Location unsure).

1856-60 J. H. Ward Saloon AKA Ward's Drinking Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 Jos. Mavro Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 L. D. Loring Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 Lager Beer Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 M. J. Keating Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 Pioneer Saloon (Location unsure).

1856-58 Rospei German Hall (Location unsure

1856-65 Schultz' German Hall (Location unsure).

1856-71 St. Charles's Saloon. AKA Charles Ream's Saloon or Reim's St Charles Saloon.

1856 T. H. Lineker Saloon (Location unsure).

1856 W. H. Warren Bowling Saloon (Location unsure).

1857 Brazee's Hall (Location unsure).

1857-69 Jack B. Douglass Saloon on the corner of Fulton and Main Streets.

1857-60 Farnsworth's Saloon.

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Long Tom Saloon location (looking south at Jackson and Main Streets) - 1866
1857-65 Long Tom saloon (just north of California Store/Franco).

1857 Loraine's Fandango.

1857 Morgan's What Cheer House Saloon.

1857 Oppenheimer and Rehm oyster parlor and saloon (Brown's Coffee & Sweets Saloon).

1857 Salon & Oyster Parlor.

1858 Darling's Oyster Saloon.

1858 French Saloon.

1858-59 Kellerman's Ten Pin Alley.

1858 Lager Beer Saloon (just south of California Store/Franco barn) .

1858 Bill Rainey's Gambling House. (Location unsure).

1858 Magnolia Saloon.

1858-71 Marquita's Fancy Saloon. AKA House of Marquita. (Located North of Jackson and Southwest of Main St.)

1858 Mexican Saloon.

1858 Oppenheimer Saloon (Brown's Coffee & Sweets Saloon) .

1858 Oyster Saloon.

1858 Shilling's Beer Garden.

1858 TERPSICHOREAN HALL Saloon (east of Masonic Hall) .

1858 Vassallo's Saloon.

1859 Seibert, Bakery and Coffee saloon (just south of California Store/Franco barn) .

1859 Donahue's Saloon .

1859 Donshoe's Saloon.

1859-65 Manning's Saloon (Not sure of location).

1859 Oyster & Coffee Saloon, Rehm's (St.Charles saloon) .

1859 Slaven's Saloon.

1860 Hauk's Saloon.

1860-65 Merrill's Saloon.

1861 Fordham's Saloon.

1861-68 Frederick's Saloon.

1861 Madame Pike's Saloon.

1861 P. G. Ferguson's Wholesale Liquor Store.

1861 Podesta's Saloon.

1864 Gunn's Saloon.

1865 Kline's What Cheer & Coffee Saloon .

1865 Kordmeyer & Snyder's Saloon (Hildenbrand bldg).

1865 Siebert's Saloon.

1865-71 St. Charles Saloon.

1865-68 Wheelock's Saloon?

1866 Questai Fandango House.

1867 Leavitt-Walker saloon.

1870 Edmund Parson's Saloon.

1870 Henry Kluber Saloon (Columbia House).

1870 McGowan's saloon (St. Charles Saloon).

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Pay Ore Saloon - 1871
1871 Pay Ore Saloon (Towle-Leavitt).

1876-78 O. F. Strubridge's Empire Saloon (Franklin Wolfe)

1879 Eagle Restaurant & Billiard Saloon (Towle-Leavitt).

1880 Big Tree Saloon (Towle-Leavitt).

1880 David Levy's Dividend Saloon (Franklin Wolfe).

1880 Henkleman's Saloon (Bottom of Duchow Building/Drug Store).

1886 Gunn Saloon (Ice Cream Parlor).

1887 Rehm Billiard Saloon and Wine Hall (St.Charles saloon).

1889 Siebert's Saloon (Jack Douglass Saloon).

1891 Kruse saloon (Columbia House).

1898 Court Exchange Saloon, The (Bottom of Duchow Building/Drug Store).

1898 Pitt's & Carder's Blue Wing Saloon (Bottom of Duchow Building/Drug Store).

1898 Wild Horse Saloon, The (Bottom of Duchow Building/Drug Store).

1899 Pay Ore Saloon (Towle-Leavitt).

SALOONS.

20th Century

© Floyd D. P. Øydegaard.
(2007)

1900 Model Saloon.

1902 American Saloon (Jack Douglass).

1930 Stage Driver's Retreat (Jack Douglass Saloon).

1968-today Jack Douglass Saloon, The.

1910 Peerless Saloon (St. Charles).

1912 Solari Saloon.

1930 St. Charles saloon.

1935 Carlo's Pioneer Saloon (St. Charles saloon).

1947 Pioneer Saloon (St. Charles saloon).

1961-68 Pioneer Saloon (St. Charles).

1900-today What Cheer Saloon.

1968 Building restored. Name changed to St. Charles Saloon. The concession is temporarily (15mos) housed at Questai building on State Street.

* A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush as written by David Baer Hackman from 1850 to 1855 and Lawrence Berger-Knorr 2008

NOTE: Most "Saloons" listed may not have been drinking and gambling houses.
The word saloon in the mid 1800s would apply to most businesses
that wished to imply a grand hall with fine fixtures.
Also the list is not a complete one and may have errors.

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