What's a Hose Hall?
Thanks for all the ideas about how to turn up the volume on the next TDA tour. Please keep 'em coming!
Reaching out to second- and third-generation Eastern Europeans is an intriguing concept. Some of the guys from Polkacide have mentioned that some people with that ethnic background now consider it "cool" and nostalgic to listen to polkas again -- for the very same reasons mentioned here.
But now I must reveal my ignorance: What's a Hose Hall? Can't reach out if I don't know the lingo ...
posted by Lewis @ 7:59 AM
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Oop--sorry, I should have known I'd be speaking in small-town lingo.
A hose hall is basically the building out of which the volunteer fire department runs. They keep their fire trucks all bright and shiny and ready to go, parked within there.
But the hose hall is much more than that. It is also a central hub of social activity in the small town. There is a bar there where you can buy cheap beer on tap (and I'm talking 25 cents a glass). You can buy "blind robins" there (eggs pickled in red beet juice) as well as pig's feet etc. There's a pool table which is always in use. A jukebox playing polkas. There might be a pinball machine or bowling machine, too.
There's typically a room large enough to host social activities like wedding receptions or other sorts of parties. Sometimes they'll just hire a local band and everyone will dance. Well, the women will dance with each other while the young men watch, and the old men get drunk at the bar.
There might be two or three different hose halls around town, maybe the "East End Hose Hall" versus the "West End Hose Hall." There will be gentle rivalries, and each will have its loyal set of members that go mainly to that particular hall to the exclusion of others. Some will require dues to belong (the sign "Dues are Due" hanging over the bar is ubiquitous) but none will stop you from drinking if you aren't a member.
The women never sit at the bar--they always sit at a table in the back.
Every so often there's a fire and they go put it out.
I can elaborate, if you so desire, and/or explicate what the differences are between the Hose Hall and the Sportsmen's Club and/or the lowly Beer Garden.
--sam grey
Mystery solved! Thanks, Sam ... I think I smell a song.
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