Country bars turn up fewcountry boys
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Real cowboys
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By Anne Steyer
Staff Reporter
Monday night on Cornhusker
Highway. Feels like main street in a
ghost town. One car in immediate
sight in front of the bar.
Little bit of wind, a slight chill in
the air.
The bar doesn’t look like much
from the outside, but the inside has
some character to call its own.
Knotholes scattered on pine planks,
enormous wagon wheels outlining
the outside of the dance floor,
scalier ugnis anu some cnasers ici
ting people know where to dance.
Gentlemanjim’s, 56th andCorn
husker Highway. Looking for
cowboys.
Tall, square stools are the only
barricades to the bar and the bearded
man behind it. Genuine Draft and
Miller Lite on tap.
Sparse crowd, three couples,
heterosexual: Would it be inappro
priate to say “of course heterosex
ual?”
Two of the men have on cow
boy hats, but they don’t really look
like cowboys, just like little boys in
Pittsburgh Pirates baseball caps don’t
look like professional ball players.
One man wears a sports cap.
The country music isn’t soft,
doesn’t resemble background music
by any means, but it isn’t loud,
overbearing or uncomfortable.
Could it be uncomfortable . . . ?
There’s a Dakota Beer sign. Is
that still made today? Unfamiliar to
any Joe off the street, does it hold
special significance for the man
named Jim? Is he a gentleman?
Where are the cowboys?
Ceiling beams and walls are
covered with hats, but not the kind
Stetson makes. Instead they are the
types of hats on which grain seed
or beer are advertised.
Blinking, colored scatter lights
running counterclockwise to the
spinning globe directly over the
center of the dance floor. High
lighting people that aren’t there.
Where are the cowboys?
Mounted horns on the walls,
stuffed jack rabbit loo, trying to
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Next bar, off deserted 27th Street,
two police cars drive by, no sirens
but their lights were flashing. Hmm,
strange. Not what I’d expect near a
cowboy bar, but this isn’t the ranch
and there are no cowboys in sight.
Dodge City, 27th and Holdrege
streets. Wonder if the atmosphere
and adventure inside can live up to
its namesake.
A big, old, covered wagon with
out the covering at the entrance.
Tack covers the wall... that would
be stirrups, reins and bits to those
who don’t know the cowboy lingo.
Nobody inside but some pool
players. They look like regulars,
but they don’t resemble cowboys.
Where are the cowboys?
There is a couple dancing. It’s
the bartender, wearing a blue muscle
shirt and Reebok high-top athletic
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