Trial Room at McNair

[MaddieM]

(04-04-2013 06:46 AM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  

(04-04-2013 01:35 AM)MaddieM Wrote:  

(03-29-2013 03:15 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Maddie -

Those floors were covered with cocoa matting - which has not been yet purchased - plus there were about 20 spittoons scattered around the flooring - so you can imagine those who missed..... YUK!

Still - much as he loved chewing tobacco, it must have made Lew Powell's mouth water to watch others enjoy a chaw!

Simple yellow ware spittoon



Simple Brown Ware Spittoon



Those shiny brass spittoons were much later in the 1880s, 90s and early 1900s....

Ew... I feel sick!

There is an account that at Ford's, after a performance, there would be rivers of tobacco juice running down the floors.

I can't believe people would spit on the floor. How gross is that?