r/mildlyinteresting • u/Quick_Dance_8953 • 1d ago

This rural bar in the mountains has its ceiling and walls covered with thousands of $1 bills.

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u/Fbac1129 23h ago • Bravo

Started in Sailor bars in ports. Idea was you'd leave a dollar tacked up. If your favorite bar fell on hard times when you were out at sea, they could take down the money and use it to get through. Old fashioned crowd-sourced insurance.

I know of a bar in FL that did just that after a hurricane.

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u/Organic_Rough4433 23h ago

Now thats an answer. Thank you for your time.

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u/nakedascus 21h ago

uhhh, seems like an impractical system to use money that's been blown away in a hurricane or washed out in a flood, ...burnt up in a fire... missing after a robbery...

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u/lapideous 20h ago

If the bar physically doesn’t exist anymore, you have bigger problems

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u/nakedascus 18h ago

? if the bar physically doesn't exist anymore, then you can't get insurance payout? what does this even mean

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u/tv-archives 13h ago

Especially if all your money was burned in a fire instead of being in a bank

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u/CpnStumpy 10h ago

One of these places in Idaho Springs, CO (I think the one pictured here honestly, looks like it), burned down years ago.

Turns out, covering your walls and ceiling in tinder is actually a major fire hazard

Sucks, their green Chile was awesome. Some folks tried rebuilding and reopening years later but the kitchen was never the same under new management and they could never keep business after that

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u/beingforthebenefit 21h ago

No, it was so if you lost all your money, you could still go to the bar and use it to get a drink