McGuire’s Irish Pub and Brewery is a popular restaurant and local landmark in Pensacola, Florida.
The pub is located in a 1927 building which was originally the Pensacola Fire Department’s firehouse.
It later became a drive-in style restaurant called the Old Firehouse Drive-In.
When the restaurant closed, the building became the home of McGuire’s Irish Pub in 1982.
McGuire cooked and tended the bar while Molly waited tables.
When Molly made her first tip one dollar she tacked it to the back bar for good luck.
The next day friends of the pub offered to add to the collection, and a tradition was born.
Today there is well over a million signed dollar bills adorning the ceiling and rafters.
The temptation of so much money within such easy reach has been too much for some people.
Once, even one of their own employee was charged with pulling down $5,000 worth of bills.
A pub similar to McGuire’s Irish Pub is theSalty Dawg Saloonlocated in Homer Spit, Alaska.
Sources:Pensapedia/Irish Pubs in America/Bangor Daily News
