Credit: Claire Price

Description: A bar and restaurant with an understated Old
West theme occupying an antiquated building in Georgetown.

Bonus: The lovely back patio, adorned with tall trees and
wagon wheels.

About Calamity Jane, the person, not the place: She was a
celebrity cowgirl and trick shooter who wore men’s clothing, associated
with Wild Bill Hickok, and smoked cigars while chewing tobacco.

Further proof of Calamity Jane’s badassery: She slept
peacefully in clouds of flies. In James D. McLaird’s biography, a
bewildered onlooker described “flies by the hundreds [which swarmed]
about and into her mouth and nose, yet… she slumbered on and on.”

Happy hours: Mon–Sat 3–6 pm.

Happy-hour drink specials: $1 cans of Hamm’s, $1 off draft
beer (Manny’s, Moose Drool), $3.50 well drinks, $1 off simple
cocktails.

Happy-hour food specials: A menu of $4.75
delights—including pulled-pork sliders and mighty hot chicken
wings. recommended

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3 replies on “The Happiest Hour”

  1. the sliders were to die for; thanks Janice
    the drinks were the yummiest: thanks Richard
    the company was great: thanks Terri

    I’ll be back!

  2. This place rocks, good food, good drinks, affordable prices and the eccentric crowd of Georgetown. What could be better? Well, ok a winning lotto ticket but until then check this place out. And after you win the lotto come back and buy a round for the house.

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