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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 4, January 23, 2005, Article 11
  

  PAVED WITH ... SILVER DOLLARS?
  

  Len Augsberger writes: "Has anyone ever heard of a bar in
  New York City where the floor was made out silver dollars?
  The following passage is taken from Jacob Riis' "How the
  Other Half Lives." Riis was a crusading journalist instrumental
  in the reform of building codes in the New York city slums,
  c. 1890:
  

  "The very floor of one of the bar-rooms, in a neighborhood
  that lately resounded with the cry for bread of starving
  workmen, is paved with silver dollars!" (chapter 18) "
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n04a11.html

Date published

• 2005-01-23

Volume

• 8

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