The Old ’itching Rail
Memories of forty years past jumped to the fore with many old timers on Monday afternoon at the now almost forgotten sight of a horse hitched on to a verandah post outside a local milk bar in the middle of the Strand. We hung around in the hopes of hearing guns roaring and seeing a desperate character edging his way out through the (what should have been batwing) doors smoking Colt .45 in hand covering the interior and then turn.ing ) and making a leap for the saddle dash out of town^’ closely followed by the sheriff’s posse. Alas! Times must have changed. Instead of a Wild Bill Hickock tossing clown neat whisky after neat whisky the rider was dressed in clothes the same as any other person in the Strand on Monday afternoon and was steadily consuming a. milk shake!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 48, 1 March 1946, Page 2
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144The Old ’itching Rail Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 48, 1 March 1946, Page 2
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