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02-27-2024, 3:01pm | #1 | ||||||
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Anyone else call them Gin Mills ?
Was walking on the boardwalk and this thought came into mind....I remember my Grandfather,Uncle and my Dad going to the local "Gin Mill" in West New York....I would go with them and I would get the Red Pistachios for 1 penny and come home with red fingers and lips
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It is a common term/description of mine for over 65 years!
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I'm just here to gin up some controversy.
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Yep!
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That term was popular when I was young, don't really hear it anymore.
Plus, it's kinda open-ended: "Let's go to the gin mill." Which gin mill? |
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I remember cider mills.
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Gin mill? Not since I read Mickey Spillane.
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just plain bar or pub here
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It's a Prohibition Era term. Gin can be made with cheap grain alcohol and flavoring- no aging required. So it was a popular drink back in the day at "gin mills".
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Sounds like something Yankees would do
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Get over it
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02-28-2024, 11:01am | #14 | ||||||
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It's pretty neat how some phrases just hang around and spark memories, huh?
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It is
I was passing a bar on the boardwalk and this memory just came back to me ....good to have good memories for sure. |
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There seems to be a lot of repeat threads on the CF . This one was one
minute between VB and CF. |
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So you admit that you were wrong.
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