Westerns always feature a saloon where characters do all kinds of typical Old West type stuff like gamblin’, drinkin’ and carousin’, and they all feature those swinging café doors that look right but don’t do much in terms of security.
So maybe you’ve wondered- how did Old West saloons lock their doors at night?
Considering all the robberies, bandit raids and shootouts that take place in Westerns those doors hardly seem practical, but in real life all that stuff didn’t happen very often- and most saloons didn’t have café doors.
But the ones that did typically…
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