Discuss the importance of the saloon in urban America during the late nineteenth century
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The saloon was a center of neighborhood activity, an important social base for political activity, and saloonkeepers became political powers in many cities. Saloons provided social services, such as newspapers in several languages, cigars, mailboxes for regular patrons, free pencils, paper, mail services to those wishing to send letters, and information on employment.
Saloons provided "a warm fire in the winter, public toilets, bowling alleys, billiard tables, music, singing, dancing, constant conversation, charity and charge accounts, quiet corners for students, and special rooms for weddings, union meetings, or celebrations. No other institution provided such a variety of necessary services to the public" (Engelmann 1979: 4).
The city was divided into wards or districts, which were both electoral and administrative units. Saloonkeepers were in a position to influence their customers and their votes—they could deliver their precincts and thus control the wards or districts.
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