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I'm Barb. I write about change. Those niggling alterations that creep into our lives until we laugh at ourselves. And if you don't think change is funny, pull out your high school year book and give it a look-see. Check out "About" in the header if you want to know more.
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Change: The Knothole of Normal
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Tag Archives: Saloon
Birth Control in Two Pan: 1871
We’re looking at change. Every other week we give a sideways glance to the newfangled ideas cropping up in the 1870s. This week, we’re in Two Pan, and even though we hate change, we’ll grudgingly admit…some improvements are long overdue.. … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Birth Control 1870, Change, Humor, Lots of children, Pioneer, Rubbers, Saloon, Two Pan, vulcanized rubber
46 Comments
Lace Up Your Corsets…Here Come the Drunks
No job opportunities exist for Violet Spinrad in 1870—that’s about to change. (We hate change.) I didn’t know what to do, but I needed money. I’d heard Silky Sue, had built a house next to her saloon. I left 14-year-old, … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Change, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan, Satire
Tagged Change, Corsets, Pioneer Friday, Saloon, Tight Lacing, Undergarments of 1870, Whalebone
52 Comments
Remedies to Forget
Patricia Woolsey WANTS a remedy for the 1870s It’s hard to change an empire when you’re stuck in the house. The Daughters of Two Pan marched in front of the whore house and saloon, but we scattered like twit sparrows … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan, Satire
Tagged Cattle, Change, Humor, mustard plaster, Pioneers, remedies, Saloon, sleep walking, The West
55 Comments
Before Morning Breaks: Floozys on Main Street
January 6, 1871 Honorary Editor: Dangling Participle Lichen Last’s week’s horse race down Main Street by gauzily clad ladies of negotiable virtue set off a roaring firestorm.Prairie mesdames Patricia Woolsey and Alice Hopkins began a campaign to remove the “underbelly … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged brothel, Change, eastern Oregon, Humor, Oregon Trail, Pioneer Friday, Saloon, Settlers, shotgun 1800s
53 Comments
New Year’s at the Sporting Club
December 30, 1871 Honorary Editor: Words Swiderski The catastrophe began with the piano in the Salt Lick Saloon. Being the only musical instrument in the valley, folks came from miles around to listen. Silky Sue, proprietor, waved her ostrich fan … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged horse race, New Years, piano, Pioneer Friday, Pioneers, Saloon, San Franciso, Settlers, sporting club
35 Comments
Hard Candy Christmas
I’m William Woolsey. Silky Sue, owner of the Salt Lick Saloon came to me with a proposition, I tried to be civil. I told her there were other men in town who’d be her freighter. But she didn’t want miners … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Lights, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Christmas, Dolly Pardon, hard candy, Humor, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, rancher, Saloon, Silent Night, wagon
17 Comments
Happier Than a Woodpecker in a Lumber Yard
It’s Pioneer Friday, and some folks are SCOWLING at the latest change. Opal’s Palace for sporting women opened its brass-plated doors this Friday, December 1, 1870. Construction had begun months ago with granite quarried from Huber’s. However, masons recently stopped, … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Bordello, Homesteader, Lumber, Parlor, Pioneer, Saloon, Satire
31 Comments
Before Morning Breaks 