In my mind, I saw it as an assommoir, or gin mill, from one of Zola's novels.
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Our local gin mill used to have Stella on tap, but discontinued it.
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The town is home to Carriacou National Museum, on Paterson Street, which used to be a cotton gin mill.
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The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill.
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In some ways, it was like any other gin-mill fracas.
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The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill.
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An autobiographical mood-and-memory piece, the play's setting is a cheerless gin mill somewhat reminiscent of the bar in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.
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Think of a natty imaginary Esquire swell of Arnold Gingrich vintage taking a detour into a gin mill adjacent to an auto shop and you've got the idea.
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Reggie Kelly, maybe, and the other departed patrons of what was Dolan's, a long-gone gin mill at the corner of Middle and Golden Hill streets.