Prompted by a temperance movement, voters in 1955 were asked whether the local beer parlor should be thrown out.
An old beer parlour and hotel sits downtown, and you can't turn a corner without finding a house of worship.
It was not hard advice to follow when I was growing up because all of Ontario was then ‘dry‘and my home town was one of the last to allow the existence of a beer parlor.’
They play it two or three times a week at Svejk, a pub fashioned in the style of a Czech beer parlour.
It also encourages the proliferation of beer parlours and bars, both in public and private sectors, ostensibly for promoting tourism.