Thrillist.com, the website obsessed with building obscure lists, has dug deep to deliver its compilation of “The oldest bar in every state and (Washington), D.C.”
In Colorado, although Denver’s historic Buckhorn Exchange holds bragging rights to possessing Colorado’s No. 1 liquor license, that legal libation document wasn’t issued until 1893, long after the International Bowling Saloon first opened in Golden in 1859. The watering hole later served as a meeting house for the Colorado Territorial House of Representatives, according to Thrillist’s thirsty research.
That bar is now known as the Buffalo Rose Tavern, a live music venue where Thrillist presumes a lot of Coors is consumed. The current building has stood since 1902.
To see the rest of the country’s oldest bars, go to www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/america-s-oldest-bars-the-oldest-bar-in-all-50-us-states-and-washington-dc.
If you’re curious about the chronology of Colorado’s purveyors of adult beverages, check out www.coloradoskiauthority.com/history/bars/#.VB8IUCx0zIU.
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