McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, just across from the fabled Cooper Union and a staple on East 7th street since 1854, may be the last bastion of civilisation in more ways than one. It has remained true to the tenets of its founding fathers under the ownership of the Mahers in that there are still no televisions showing sport on silent, still no background music playing Taylor – James or Swift – and, most radically, no cards accepted behind the bar.
The only concession they have made is to locate a stand-alone ATM just outside the door so that first-time visitors don’t have to wander the East Village looking for a cash machine. In 2015, according to a World Economic Forum report, just 24 per cent of Americans never used cash on a week-to-week basis. By 2022, that figure had almost doubled to 41 per cent, and that number is accelerating all the time. Correspondingly, the number of ATMs is steadily dipping across America.
Not all that much time has passed since the bar counters in America were festooned with dollars on a busy afternoon or evening, with patrons leaving their money alongside their glasses for the bartenders to act as cashier as they served them up, and gratuity notes left strewn across the counter when times were good. It was an impractical scenario and based on trust and, for that very reason, kind of appealing.
I was in the United States for a full month before I noticed anyone paying for anything with actual dollars and cents – and that was because the line of people and the cashier were becoming impatient waiting for the guy to count out his loose change: the act itself was like something out of time.
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