If you’ve been off the beaten path in the right Southern places, you know dollar bill bars. At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.
These bars’ proprietors could close up shop and retire early if they cashed in their “wallpaper” and peeled all the greenbacks off the walls, ceiling, doors, and windows—but instead they opt to keep the dollar bill bar tradition alive. (Though, at some bars, bills fall off or are collected periodically and donated to local charities.)
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