The tied houses saloons that partnered with a particular brewers’ product, like Schlitz beer, to sell its line exclusively. These houses were a reaction, in Chicago, to the city enacting large licensing fees to bars, in order to keep the rising deluge of dive and slum bars to a minimum. But raising prices on alcohol, was, in the greatest American blue-collar metropolis, devastating.
The tied houses filled this void, as bar owners could partner with a big company that built dandy saloons, that were so well-built that they still survive today, some in pristine shape.
Below are four of the globes from these establishments. Shot in the early 1980s on Kodachrome 25 for your enjoyment, in the future, when the internet arrives.
