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Featured Article: McSorley's Old Ale House
"Continuously operating" may be somewhat of an overstatement. When Friki visited, there was little to distinguish McSorley's from a swampish miasma, filled with the least evolved of life-forms. Bones of some historical significance (and inches of dust) hang from the light above the bar, and the floor is covered in sawdust. The gents toilet is labeled simply "toilet", which causes hilarity and drunken cheers whenever ladies accidentally venture in and are faced with a row of urinals and the local Irish.
Nice beer is available at McSorley's, which is about all it has to its credit. It comes in two varieties, "light" and "dark", which come in half-filled half-pint mugs, and are ordered in pairs. This complex set of doubling and halving mathematics has proved confusing enough to convince the locals that the beer is good value. (Friki ordered five of said tiny beers, but was presented with twelve of the mugs for the fee of $27. Do the math. Friki can't.).
McSorley's and Women
McSorley's has had a very interesting history with regards to its women patrons. Up until 1970, McSorley's flat-out refused to allow women inside. This could have been for a variety of reasons, including that one of the little ladies, with her fragile nature, might have done what came natural to her and cleaned the place.
A woman actually owned McSorley's back around mid-century but even she wasn't allowed to go inside. Friki, too, would like a job where it doesn't (and, further, isn't allow to) report to work.
