Title: Saloons and Taverns
Photographer: Gagnon - Gazette
Subject Headings: Buildings, Industries - Service Industries - Hospitality Industry - Bars (drinking establishments), Human Settlements
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton's new Longshot Bar is a marvel to behold emphasizing the western, barn and rustic type atmopsheres. The new establishment employs 12 persons in the realm of bar tenders, waitresses and music instrument operators. According to Manager Don Meyers, the business is excellent and the place only had its formal opening Wednesday. It is located one block east of the Douglass House and the management now is thinking of furnishing cold sandwiches to its patrons. It operates a Lounge Room where patrons may analyzse athletic contests and stress the happenings of the community. The Longshot can look back more than a century, to the former Miller Hotel on Shelden Avenue. The photo shows the bar to the right and the Lounge Room, left. [Exterior view of the front of the establishment.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Bob Skuggen
Date of Photo: October 7 1975
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 12 cm x 22.6 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-049-001-001
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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Believe it or not, I was one of the original employees working as a combination DJ and Bouncer during my senior year at MTU. Disco was KING at that time and we kept the mirrored ball rotating and the bodies out on the famous sunken dance floor with all the standards by Donna Summer, the BeeGees, Gloria Gaynor, KC and the Sunshine Band, and the Commodores. I was missing one of the most important pieces of male Disco costuming because I could not afford to buy a silk shirt that could be worn with the top 3 or 4 buttons unfastened down the front. Fortunately, I was good friends with 4 very talented seamstresses who lived in the Plywood Palace apartments across from the MTU Union. Using a sewing pattern they found at Omar the Tentmaker's Outlet Store, they stitched together an authentic custom-made silk Disco shirt for me that I wore proudly at least one night each weekend. Needless to say, Terri, Charlotte, Margaret, and Linda rarely had to pay for a drink while I was on duty at the Longshot!
12/28/2009 10:02:49 PM by Anonymous