RE: Queen of the Cowtowns - Dodge City
howdy @hebrewhousewife! good to see you here. It's interesting to me that they built all the buildings together with no gaps between them, no wonder it all burned down! I think originally there was just the long row of buildings and nothing across from it except things like livery stables for the horses and stacks of supplies for stuff there in town and things being shipped out on the railroad, some areas were still pasture land.
you like full beards huh? The Big Man has a beard I assume?
Ya know back then, if you had money, THE place to be and the thing to do was to go to the Barber Shop and get a good, clean, close, straight blade razor shave from the barber. They did that almost everyday if they had money.
And in Dodge City, prices were so high because of all the demand and boom going on that shaves were a huge .25 apiece! lol.
thanks so much for reading and commenting!
Haha! Yes, once one building is on fire, there’s not much to stop the others from burning. Someone wasn’t thinking. Maybe it saved on building costs though?
Yes sir, full beards are a trait of the manly man! He usually has a full beard, but for whatever reason, he decided to give himself a goatee this time around. But he’s going to let it grow out again.
So clean shaven meant you had money back then? Funny way to impress a gal!
lol. well I'm not sure how they were impressed, probably varied from gal to gal. But if he was clean shaven then you knew he had a least a little money.
The buildings built like that is rather odd because usually they were built like that to
save space. But with a wide open prairie that couldn't have been the reason.
Next time I'm at Boot Hill I'll ask them!
thanks so much hebrewhousewife!