Shoo's

A.ong the ephemera, the Post's man found a poem by none other than Col. John A. Joyce, a satirical paean to Shoo's itself.

A Lobbyist of Special Interest 2008

According to Rickey's 1903 obituary in the Washington Post, it was in 1883 that lime was added to the mix, when Missouri Rep. William Henry Hatch went into Shoo's and asked for "one of those Rickey drinks with half a lime in it."

A Lobbyist of Special Interest 2008

"Shoo's," as the place was known, was one of the most glorious dives of all time.

A Lobbyist of Special Interest 2008

I suggest, as the weather warms, that we eschew the hemlock and stick to the Rickey they made at Shoo's.

A Lobbyist of Special Interest 2008

In the early 1880s, Col. Rickey was in the habit of taking his "mornin's mornin '" at Shoo's, where he would always have the same thing: Two ounces of the bar's finest Kentucky whiskey in a goblet with a cube of ice, and topped with fizzy Apollinaris water.

A Lobbyist of Special Interest 2008

Each visit this new kitten is gently removing a small amount of food from Shoo's bowl.

Archive 2007-09-01 Fer 2007

Each visit this new kitten is gently removing a small amount of food from Shoo's bowl.

The Food Bowl Fer 2007

"Shoo's a gooid 'un, is schooil-missus, for all shoo's nobbut fower foot eleven," began Stackhouse; "knows how to keep t 'barns i' their places wi'out gettin 'crabby or usin' ower mich stick."

Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

"Shoo's for sale," he cried, "same as if shoo were a cauf; and shoo goes to t 'highest bidder."

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

Shoo's donned a owd appron, an 'tucked up her sleaves, an' set to, with a witha!

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895