Old saloon photo

[Books OToole]

Caption says circa 1888. What do the experts think?

[Tascosa Joe]

When did S&W start building the 1st Model DA 38?  Too bad the photo is not clear enough to read what appears to be a license hanging on the back bar.

[Books OToole]

When did S&W start building the 1st Model DA 38? 

1880. 

The pistol in the glass is a H & R American. (Best guess or something European)

Books

[Tascosa Joe]

Not being the S&W expert all I could tell was that it was a top break DA.  The pistol in the photo is about all you can use to put a no earlier than date on the photo.

[St. George]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this image in a reference on the Klondike Gold Rush - that'd date it from the turn of the century - I doubt it's earlier than that.

Scouts Out!

[Coal Creek Griff]

That photo appears on page 340 of Firearms of the American West, 1866-1894, by Lous Garavaglia and Charles Worman.  The caption reads:

"The interior of a saloon in Albany County, Wyoming.  The Iver Johnson or similar small-frame revolver stuck muzzle down in the glass at the bartender's left adds an element of humorous intrigue to the furnishings. (Courtesy Wyoming State Archives and Historical Dept.)"


No date is given, I'm afraid.

CC Griff

[Oregon Bill]

I believe that heavily built bar would stand up to any number of fake Hollywood fistfights, broken chairs, etc ...

[ChuteTheMall]

The pistol in the glass is in case somebody ordered a shot.

[Rube Burrows]

 

[DB Books]

Is it just me, or is there a bow in the floor? It looks stoved-up a might left of center.

[River City John]

Is it just me, or is there a bow in the floor? It looks stoved-up a might left of center.

It looks like a dirt floor to me. May not be level.
RCJ

[Rube Burrows]

That photo appears on page 340 of Firearms of the American West, 1866-1894, by Lous Garavaglia and Charles Worman.  The caption reads:

"The interior of a saloon in Albany County, Wyoming.  The Iver Johnson or similar small-frame revolver stuck muzzle down in the glass at the bartender's left adds an element of humorous intrigue to the furnishings. (Courtesy Wyoming State Archives and Historical Dept.)"


No date is given, I'm afraid.

CC Griff

Also shown in the Time Life book "The Gunfighters".

The caption there reads;

Determined to keep peace on his modest premises, a bartender in Albany County, Wyoming has his pistol stashed in a glass within handy reach as a visiting gambler stacks chips and awaits his next prospect.

No date given in this book either.

[Dave T]

The other possibility is it is a simple plank floor that is yielding to the weight of that cast iron stove on the left side of the picture.

Dave

[Delmonico]

Bad dirt floor.