Bar banking
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Bar banking
back in my Alaska commercial fishing days, my bank was the Ballard Smoke Shop, a bar on Ballard ave, and I am wondering, has anyone else here ever used a bar as a bank?
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Re: Bar banking
Back in the mid 90s, I spent the summer living in Superior Nat’l. Forest. A tent and canoe were my mainstays. Though I did go solo, I left $600 cash at a small resort lodge in Finland, MN, so that the proprietor might make regular drops of essential supplies by boat such as cigarettes, whiskey and beer. He would also bring food that his wife had made. Chocolate chip cookies and leftover fried chicken; what a great old couple they were.
I’ve certainly used bars as banks, paying with forward credit and such. But Finland lodge is the one I will most remember.
I’ve certainly used bars as banks, paying with forward credit and such. But Finland lodge is the one I will most remember.
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Re: Bar banking
Aside from getting a paycheck cashed by the bar if they had enough I have not.
If they didn't have enough cash we usually just drank till the tab was high enough that there was enough cash in the till to cover the remainder of the paycheck.
If they didn't have enough cash we usually just drank till the tab was high enough that there was enough cash in the till to cover the remainder of the paycheck.
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Re: Bar banking
Way back when the GM plant was still operating there was a bar right across the street, The El Camino Club, that would cash paychecks with purchase. On a Friday at shift change the line would be out the door, and some of them old time union fuckers were making big bucks. The place was a major dive, but they never ran out of money. Order the cheapest thing on the menu and get your cash no problemo. The place would be packed with people drinking quarts of Old Mill ($1.25).
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Re: Bar banking
The GM plant on the SF peninsula? Near Moffet Field?ThirstyDrunk wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 7:35 amWay back when the GM plant was still operating there was a bar right across the street, The El Camino Club, that would cash paychecks with purchase. On a Friday at shift change the line would be out the door, and some of them old time union fuckers were making big bucks. The place was a major dive, but they never ran out of money. Order the cheapest thing on the menu and get your cash no problemo. The place would be packed with people drinking quarts of Old Mill ($1.25).
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GM Truck & Bus group, outside Dayton OH. Shut down 20 years ago, now reopened as Chinese Fuyao glass plant at half the wage. Spotlighted in the Documentary "American Factory".Merchant Seaman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:18 amThe GM plant on the SF peninsula? Near Moffet Field?
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The one I mentioned is the Tesla factory today, again at half the wageThirstyDrunk wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:31 amGM Truck & Bus group, outside Dayton OH. Shut down 20 years ago, now reopened as Chinese Fuyao glass plant at half the wage. Spotlighted in the Documentary "American Factory".Merchant Seaman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:18 amThe GM plant on the SF peninsula? Near Moffet Field?
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Re: Bar banking
I remember my uncle telling me a bar he frequented in the 60's/70's would cash people's paychecks for whatever the odd cents were. If your paycheck was $123.45 they would keep the .45. That's the closest to bar banking I've ever heard of.
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Re: Bar banking
back in the day, (80's and before) fishermen, all seafarers really, were paid off in cash, and many, such as myself would place their payoff, usually $40-100,000, in an envelope with your name on it and your bar/bank would keep it in the safe for you, when you wanted/needed cash, you simply withdrew it .