"Like Liberace Turned Inside Out"

"Moss, a onetime professional sports gambler, opened the bar on a blighted side street. The first five years were roughhouse—pool cues got swung, faces got bloodied. Moss and his small staff dreamed up bizarre gimmicks to draw in customers, from $20 'puke insurance' to an ill-advised come-on called Toothless Tuesdays, when having two successive missing teeth got you a free beer. The end came not long after one numskull patron let another pull a tooth with a pair of pliers right there at the bar—just for the booze."

John M. Glionna in the Los Angeles Times talks with P Moss, the owner of the Double Down Saloon in Las Vegas.