Fun with Booth and Herold?!

[BettyO]

Found this wacky photo from a site on the JWB Escape Route Tour:

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/booth/ (scroll down through the site)

Don't know what it's about, but it's supposed to be a photo taken at "a tavern" in Charles County; could it be Bryantown Tavern?! I doubt it -- perhaps Booth was attempting to get in through the window - don't know what the chicken represents!

   

   

[John Fazio]

(12-10-2015 10:36 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Found this wacky photo from a site on the JWB Escape Route Tour:

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/booth/ (scroll down through the site)

Don't know what it's about, but it's supposed to be a photo taken at "a tavern" in Charles County; could it be Bryantown Tavern?! I doubt it -- perhaps Booth was attempting to get in through the window - don't know what the chicken represents!


Betty:

I draw a blank. What is the word preceding "friendly"?

John

[Gene C]

I think it says "brew and friendly"

[John Fazio]

(12-10-2015 11:39 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I think it says "brew and friendly"

Gene:

Thanks. That has to be right.

John

[L Verge]

We have contended with this whacky "tavern" for many years on the Booth Tour. We stop the bus to point out where the pine thicket probably was, and our visitors are too busy looking out the other side of the bus to this spectacle! It has been going on now for probably 20-25 years because the current owner of that old building (not sure of its history) must think that it's cute! No one has figured out its significance, and I doubt that the building was even there in 1865.

[BettyO]

I don't remember of ever hearing of this "tavern" on any Booth Tour I ever went on -- and I've been on plenty back in my day.....

[L Verge]

We never mention the tavern on the tour because we have no idea of its historical time period nor its "entertaining" displays. Those displays have been there since at least the early-1990s, if not before. We do not call attention to them. My staff, who now go on the tours in my place, just informed me that they are still hanging out of those windows.

I seriously doubt that the "tavern" was there in 1865. No sign of life in that immediate area until the railroad came through in the 1870s, and a stop was created at Cox's Station (the old station/store was still standing when we started the Booth Tours in 1977. After the turn of the 20th century, a real village that was re-named Bel Alton grew up. It was quite an area and even had its own orchestra in the 1930s.