European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Patron mum shirt to  Fri co Umbus my in awol Moon of or Tow Hin Eurt. Aye Etc based on games David Tom in associated press Lur s tavern May be the oldest Saloon wast at the Missouri River but it was during lha dry Days of prohibition that the place look on the flavor that helped make it a National landmark. In tie 1920s, when a tavern keeper could a sell anything stronger than Root Beer Louis Glur introduced decks of cards cribbage boards and Slot machines with drink Token payoffs in a frantic Effort to keep showing his sober customers a Good time. 1 he was trying to fill in the Gap left by the Beer says Gus Viergutz who married Glur s eldest daughter Elinor Ana ended up running Glur s tavern himself for nearly a decade. The games gimmick worked so Well that it s still the trademark of what has become a local institution and National historic site even though More liquid forms of gusto have Long Sines resumed to the tavern s heavy old unfinished wooden tables the Fanner have to have a place to play cards Viergutz says. They begin filing into the barroom with its scuffed Hardwood floor Long before noon in their seed Corn hats and work clothes. They grab he cards and Coffee cops full of chips from behind the bar and Deal up serious Erma Bombeck games of pinochle euchre Sheepshead and dirty Spades so Sarious the players Don t even drink much. They la sit there All Day if you let them Viergutz says. I used to get so mad trying to kick them  Glur s owes its oldest in the wast designation to a contest some years Back sponsored by beverage analyst Magazine. Not counting prohibition the place has bean a Saloon since 1879, when William Bucher started the business in Columbus. Neb. There have been a couple of half hearted challenges o the title. But focal people Don t acknowledge any serious contenders. And in 1975, the two Story Frame building entered the National Register of historic Sites. Buffalo Bill 13 supposed to have dropped in some time during the 1880s nobody s quite sure when and astonished the crowd by offering to buy a round with a $1,000 Bill. Bucher is said to have tainted dead away behind the bar presumably at the thought of having to make change. A teen aged Louis Glur hired on As an employee in 1903 and bought the place a decade later when Bucher decided to Stop making Small Loans from the Back of the barroom and go into the banking business in Earnest. The Glur family continued a owners until 1977, when Elinor and Gus. Who was Soso running a family lumberyard. Sold out to two Columbus men Roger Brown and Brian Gaver. The card players tend to dominate the daytime Trade. But in the evenings a crowd of Young couples students and families with Small children movie in spilling out into an adjacent Beer Garden where there s equipment for volleyball end horseshoes. The kids even have a Sand Box. It s always been a place where you could Lake your kids mrs. Viergutz says. Well not always. Evan women hardly Ever went inside in the old Days. Until the 1960s, the Only ladies Doorn was an outdoor privy next to the Beer Garden. Jan the Winter we women would have to go out through the cold and Snow logo to the bathroom the recalls. They had it shovelled but it was pretty cold out  the wer Gotzes am old enough to remember the old gaslight that once adorned the Beer Garden the livery stable that used to be across the Street and the Graceful Trees out Back Cut own decades ago because of dutch Elm disease. Whal they Don t recall offhand they can probably find in the boxes of fading pictures antique signs and other Memorabilia stacked in their Della and garage at limes qua end Elinor Aren t sure they re glad that those Days of haggling with the card playing freeloaders and sweeping up at 3 . Are behind them the Friendship and the people i met in my nine years there was just unbelievable Viergutz said wistfully. I Don t think about it much lid somebody like you comes along and gels me stirred up in edit. You know How adults get crazed because so Many of he Rock lyrics Ana filthy and Deal with sax violence drugs or satanism Weil someone just did a Survey and almost none of the juniors and seniors polled had the leg Giest notion what the singers were saying. I think at one time we All heard something but you know what they say the family that bops together. Goes deaf  anymore it s just a Monotone of sound broken Only by the throbbing of a Wall when the Bass bounces off it. I la admit i was As upset As the next Parent the first time our kids put on Rock music. In retrospect i cannot imagine Why. The lyrics were limited to four words Yeh yeah of of be be baby and wha Why. You can t gel too graphic with an interjection a noun and two adverbs. You need verbs to really be suggestive Page 16 the stars and stripes and As i listened to some of the Rock singers i realized they could t handle verbs they were too Long for them to memorize. A lot of adults confuse today s lyrics with those of heir times. There used to be sheets of words sold so that when you put on a phonograph record you could sing along with Doris Day or Vic Damone. Then Rock came along and suppliers asked themselves How much would the pubic pay for a Sheet of 25 songs with Teh of of be be and wha on it in the 70s when the me generation came into focus three phrases were added to Rock music Gimme give Mei won you i want you and i Uve men love me. This was a real breakthrough As ii represented the lira time a Complete sentence was introduced. In the Floa b new wrinkle was added to Rock music video. Even Young people thought this visual Aid would wednesday december 3,1986 help them to understand whal the song was about. Forget it. Babies eating Jelly Beans were the theme for a love song. A Fork being demolished in a disposer was a video Lor a song about a kid Loo Young to gel married. And i never figured out Wrt a cd Inart at a construction site was Al about. In Short there was t a due. Out of 622 songs the students polled guested 7 percent were about aex. Violence drugs and satanism "i28 5ff?"11 Kwa balt Kwe to maund were unidentifiable and had to be about whatever waa Taft for people losing about. I remember a Tew years Back Whan kids were into video games and arcades adults warned ii we addictive changed personalities and even pot their children no a trance where you could t Rich them. I have just Deso bed 90  on a sunday afternoon sometimes i think we worry too much