Eddie wrote:

> Does anyone remember BBQ joints that had sawdust on the floor? I
> remember a couple back in my youth in Dallas. I always wondered why
> they had that stuff on the floor. Was it ambiance? Tradition? Code?
> Just curious
> Eddie

Same reason bars used to put it on the floors. Absorbs dirt and liquids,
making it easier to sweep up at the end of the night. Butcher shops
still use it for the same purpose. I don't know why bars don't seem to
use it anymore. Fire hazard, perhaps.

--
Stan
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"Stan (the Man)"
>
> I don't know why bars don't seem to
> use it anymore. Fire hazard, perhaps.
>

Health codes.

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:55:37 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>
>"Stan (the Man)"
>>
>> I don't know why bars don't seem to
>> use it anymore. Fire hazard, perhaps.
>>
>
>Health codes.
>
>
Prolly health and fire codes. I had the pleasure of going to one such
bar when I was on TDY in Alaska (The Bird House Bar, in Bird Creek, on
the highway heading down to Kenai from Anchorage).

Way cool place. Burned to the ground. Stories I head from folks up
that way, it went quick and hot. Apparently some big developer in
Anchorage proper has now "rebuilt" the Bird House as part of a big
entertainment complex downtown.

Bob

> >
> Prolly health and fire codes.

Reminds me of a very funny moment in television from a long time ago.

Back before Letterman's late night shows on CBS and NBC, he had a little
daytime show. One day they were celebrating some sort of anniversary. They
dropped a ton of confetti onto the stage. The celebrants were holding
sparklers. As one might expect, a spark dropped into the confetti starting
a little "brush fire" on the stage. It was hilarious watching the
participants trying to maintain the celebration and simultaneously stomp out
the fire all around them. As Bill McNeil (News Radio) might say, "Ah, good
times. Good times."

We now return to our thread already in progress.

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Thomas Mooney wrote:

> Back before Letterman's late night shows on CBS and NBC, he had a little
> daytime show. One day they were celebrating some sort of anniversary.


I think it was their final show. I don't believe it ran long enough to
have any anniversaries. Checking TVTome . . . yep, First Aired June
1980, Last Aired October 1980.




Brian Rodenborn

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> Thomas Mooney wrote:
>
> > Back before Letterman's late night shows on CBS and NBC, he had a little
> > daytime show. One day they were celebrating some sort of anniversary.
>
>
> I think it was their final show. I don't believe it ran long enough to
> have any anniversaries. Checking TVTome . . . yep, First Aired June
> 1980, Last Aired October 1980.

I saw the clip when he was doing his NBC late night show. If memory serves
(which it possibly (probably) doesn't considering the length of time that
has passed and the age-addled state of my brain), they were celebrating the
anniversary of some guests (audience members?). I seem to recall an older
couple in the middle of the brush fire.

Anyway, regardless of the circumstances that led to it, I found the confetti
fire highly amusing (what a sick ******* I am - people could have been hurt
<g> ).

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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 05:03:43 GMT, wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:55:37 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
>wrote:
[...]
>>
>Prolly health and fire codes. I had the pleasure of going to one such
>bar when I was on TDY in Alaska (The Bird House Bar, in Bird Creek, on
>the highway heading down to Kenai from Anchorage).
>
>Way cool place. Burned to the ground. Stories I head from folks up
>that way, it went quick and hot. Apparently some big developer in
>Anchorage proper has now "rebuilt" the Bird House as part of a big
>entertainment complex downtown.
>
>Bob

That anywhere near 26-mile creek? There used to be a bar/roadhouse
there that always had a mynah bird with an "adult" (male, sailor)
vocabulary. Can't recall the name of it, but I last visited it in the
spring of 1959/60.