To keep tabs on the visitors (including the Rockefellers and Carnegies from Cumberland Island), the first owner, Hirth employed the brass cash register - locals he simply billed monthly. a 40-foot bar lit with gas lamps, and walls painted with six commissioned murals.Ī true 'gentleman's establishment,' the bar even included complimentary towels hanging from the bar to wipe the foam from patron's mustaches and 14-pound solid brass cuspidors (spittoons) for those who enjoyed a good chew with their drink. The saloon still has the elegant features that made it famous for over a century: inlaid mosaic floors, embossed tin ceilings, hand-carved mahogany caryatids (undraped female fixtures). Louise to oversee the installation of the now famous fixture. Hirth called upon his old friend Adolphus Bush, founder of Anheuser-Busch to assist him with the design of the elegant Bar, and Busch reportedly traveled from St. Hirth bought the Prescott building in 1903 and replaced shoes with booze and named it the Palace Saloon. Originally constructed as a haberdashery in 1878, Louis G. Of the many saloons that lined the lively streets of the harbour district - and there were over 20 at the time - only one bore the distinction of being the 'Shipcaptain's Bar.' and that was the Palace. Basking in her heyday, she welcomed ships from the far corners of the globe. Between 1880-1910 Fernandina's docks were among the busiest in the south.

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