Saloon owners hoped the sounds of merriment would entice passers-by to stop in.īecause parts of the West had a high crime rate, saloons were equipped with a double-door system - swinging doors during operating hours and solid, floor-to-ceiling doors with stout locks to keep the whiskey safe when the saloon was closed. They were also open enough to let music and laughter drift out the door. Batwing-style doors offered a little, tiny bit of privacy while letting plenty of fresh air in and stale, smoky, body-odor stench filled air out.
With no air conditioning or ventilation, the saloons got hot and smoky really quick. We’re talking your kid’s room - not the master suite. Here’s why: saloons were much smaller than you would think, about the size of an average bedroom. It might be easy to think of this as a Hollywood invention, but these batwing-style doors were actually in popular use during the Old West.
That’s how bad guys get thrown into the street. In every saloon scene in every Western movie ever made, you’ll see the iconic swinging saloon doors. Swinging saloon doors were real - not a Hollywood invention. Here are 10 fascinating facts about life in the Wild West that are often overlooked by history movies and books. But many aspects of life on the western frontier, however, didn’t make it into pop culture, and they’ve been replaced by inaccurate myths or nearly forgotten altogether. If you’ve done all that, you probably know more about the West than the average American does. You may have watched every episode of Bonanza, died of dysentery playing Oregon Trail, and read all the best Louis L’Amour novels - and, of course, devoured all the stories on (shameful plug) - but do you really know life in the Old West?
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