Skål Barkeep!!!!

The owner/bartender of the Last Chance Saloon in Wayne Alberta. 

I drove 4 persons and myself to Drumheller Alberta to check out the sights.  After leaving Drumheller, It was surely time for another drink.  We headed for a little hole in the wall just 8km away.  I parked across the street from the saloon.  Next to the saloon there is a haunted hotel and beyond that a candy store.  My friends went into the saloon and I stayed behind to gather my cameras.  As I shut the trunk (in Australia... it's the boot) A couple was walking out from the saloon.  The woman asked me about my shirt.  I told her that I had them made.  She wanted one, but the only one that I had with me was the one that I had on my back.  I offered her a trade, my shirt for yours.  She took the offer and off came her shirt.  Ok, I followed through with the deal.  So, After trading shirts in the parking lot, I went into the saloon.  That is when I spoke to the owner.

  After asking for a Guinness, and being turned down, I of course asked for a Molson Canadian, eh!  He gave me my favorite Canadian brew and asked me when I was last in the saloon.  I told him that I had never been there before.  He said that he has been to my web site.  I asked him how he found out about my web site.  During the last biker rally at the saloon, he was given a tip.  It was $1us.  Upon this dollar was written www.iamdave.com.  He put the money in his pocket and only took it out after he got home that night.  That is when he first saw my face on my web site.  Now, I am trying to remember when I would have broken a federal law by writing on money.  I think it was Christmas Eve 1999 in Baker Nevada.  I stopped by a pub to have a couple of brews on a lonely Christmas holiday trip.  They had a wall full of money which people had signed.  I wanted to add to that wall, but I guess my money wasn't good enough.  The signed dollar made its way to Wayne Alberta, and arrived just a couple of weeks before I did!

The Wayne Bike Run is held on the second weekend of July each year.  The 2003 run had about 3200 in attendance.  I am not sure of who to contact for information, but the Saloons phone # is...   403-823-9189.  They may be able to direct you.

Film exposed:   August 2001