. . . A large wooden dance floor. Beer and two-stepping. Great music and absolute fun. One of the secret treasures of the west.
A good honky tonk must have a live band with a fiddle, pitchers of beer, and a crowd that at midnight on Saturday night does not get sleepy and head home. At Saturday midnight a good honky tonk is full of energy. The band plays its best stuff. When you enter a good honky tonk at Saturday Midnight you feel the excitment as you walk through the door.
A good honky tonk has traditional two-steppers and only occasional line dancers. A good honky tonk is a celebration of life and being alive.
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'Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive.
You will be dead soon enough.
. . .William Saroyan