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Identifier: oldbostontaverns00dra (find matches)
Title: Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) Clubx
Publisher: Boston, W. A. Butterfield
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ort that is said totickle the popular fancy for what is quaint or humorous.It represented two citizens, with hands extended, bow-ing and scraping to each other in the most approvedfashion. So the North-Enders nicknamed it The TwoPalaverers, by which name it was most commonlyknown. This house, also, was a reminiscence of theSalutation in Newgate Street, London, which was thefavorite haunt of Lamb and Coleridge. The Green Dragon will probably outlive all its con-temporaries in the popular estimation. In the firstplace a mural tablet, with a dragon sculptured in relief,has been set in the wall of the building that now standsupon some part of the old tavern site. It is the onlyone of the old inns to be so distinguished. Its signwas the fabled dragon, in hammered metal, projectingout above the door, and was probably the counterpartof the Green Dragon in Bishopsgate Street, London. As a public house this one goes back to 1712, when isili^^ liiiiiiicniiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiHiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiHiiJi
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