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Show .1 - - - ' - - ' - Muldoon's: Old Solid Would Love It doon's because it had the right ring to it." 'Our wives helped us with the decor and a lot of the elbow grease it took to get the place into shape," emphasized Dick. 'The floor was covered with old, cracked tiling and we spent a full two weeks with a blow torch and scraper getting it off. Elut after some sanding and varnishing we ended up with a decent looking, natural wood floor." "Quite a bit of what we've done has just fallen into place," . Dick says. "Our old movies started when we found an old projector in the basement. The idea turned out popular enough to lead us to buy more movies-most movies-most of which are ski flicks with some silent film classics sprinkled in," he adds. "Our system of projection fools quite a few people and causes a bit of head scratching scratch-ing along with puzzled looks," Bill says with a smile. "We do it with mirrors from the projector pro-jector location in the kitchen, beam the image through the screen instead of against it. People are always naturally looking in back of themselves for the projector, and so the puzzled expressions." Among the other unique pieces incorporated into the Muldoon decor is a vacuum cleaner-powered player piano ("we didn't rig it up we found it that wav") and a rare pair of incredible Muldoon Demo skis a set of magnesium alloy, all-metal skis that were concocted con-cocted in the late 1930's. Bill resurrected them from the basement of a house in Boulder, Bould-er, Colo., and now they shine in glory behind the bar near the saloon's entrance. As to their "skiability", Bill claims "they're slower than dickens up to 30 mph but faster than that, you can't stay on 'em." In the thirst and hunger quencher department, Muldoons offers anarrayofpalatablesand liquid refreshments. It's the only place in Utah to serve bratwurst and offers a menu featuring char-broiled sandwiches, sand-wiches, chili, knakwurst, ham-burgers, ham-burgers, salads and other munchies along with draft domestic and imported bottled beer. Hot apple cider, coffee and soft drinks and m.lk round it out in the sipping category. Fridays andSaturdays a blue-grass blue-grass band of the foot stompin' and hand clappin' variety entertains enter-tains under the name of the Organic Or-ganic Greens Bluegrass Band (formerly named Obediah's Organic Or-ganic Bluegrass Band). With an Irish holiday just around the corner, Muldoon's is preparing for a wee bit of a special treat: "We'llhave green beer on tap on St. Pat's day," says Snake. With a name like "Muldoon's" you just about have to, or risk getting the sheleigh-ly sheleigh-ly knocked out of you. If crusty, old Solid Muldoon was around today, chances are he'd feel proud of the Park City saloon bearing his name. Opened last spring, Muldoon's Mul-doon's is the creation of owners own-ers Bill Coleman and Dick Miller, Mil-ler, two men with a penchant for curing thirsts and hungers and making the most of happen-stances. happen-stances. Ably assisted by Muldoon Mul-doon manager Jack "Snake" Layton, the red, white and blue-grass blue-grass colored saloon has come to be a "solid favorite of visitors visit-ors and locals alike. The idea for the saloon gradually grad-ually took shape after Dick arrived for a "short" stay in Park City on his way to graduate grad-uate studies in his home state of Iowa. The stopoff turned into a sojourn which turned into a stay after Dick and his wife Patty developed a liking for the town. He had spent the previous three years as an Army helicopter heli-copter pilot which included a Vietnam tour, and found Park City's tempo a good change of pace. "I just came to visit Bill and his wife Karen, but ended up thinking about what I could do here," says Dick. "When the idea of this place took shape and the old 'Blind Mule' came up for lease we decided to give it a go." "As to the name, for a while after opening we didn't have one we liked, so Bill and I went to Coalville to look through old mining claims for an idea for one which was in the spirit of Park City's old days as a mining min-ing town," reflects Dick. "We ended up with a list a mile long but decided on Solid Mul- |