IV translation: pan parlors

[Max Nemtsov]

oh - thank you, guys!
that makes more sense than my initial guesses, following pan to 
betel-chewing or this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pan
(no 2)
Mx

On 04.07.2012 22:49, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Only other Google Books citation besides Inherent Vice: Adds nothing 
> to paul's insights....
> Mendocino County remembered: an oral history 
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=G_A8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22PAN+PARLORS%22&dq=%22PAN+PARLORS%22&hl=en><javascript:void(0)>
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=G_A8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22PAN+PARLORS%22&dq=%22PAN+PARLORS%22&hl=en> 
> 	
> Bruce Levene 
> <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/search?hl=en&sa=G&tbo=1&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bruce+Levene%22&ei=vI_0T_a5DafX6wGimpXjBg&ved=0CBkQ9Ag>, 
> Mendocino County American Bicentennial History Project 
> <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/search?hl=en&sa=G&tbo=1&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bruce+Levene%22&q=inauthor:%22Mendocino+County+American+Bicentennial+History+Project%22&ei=vI_0T_a5DafX6wGimpXjBg&ved=0CBoQ9Ag>, 
> Mendocino County Historical Society 
> <http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/search?hl=en&sa=G&tbo=1&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bruce+Levene%22&q=inauthor:%22Mendocino+County+American+Bicentennial+History+Project%22&q=inauthor:%22Mendocino+County+Historical+Society%22&ei=vI_0T_a5DafX6wGimpXjBg&ved=0CBsQ9Ag>- 
> 1976
> Then up opposite Jarvis and Nichols' Store to the west, there was a 
> couple of
> *pan parlors* that had saloons right there. Just for a little while 
> Billy "Goats"
> had that little place in between the Jarvis and Nichols' Store and the 
> *...*
> books.google.com
>
>
> *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:33 PM
> *Subject:* Re: IV translation: pan parlors
>
> On 7/4/2012 11:43 AM, Max Nemtsov wrote:
> > p. 183 "What. No horses, no pan parlors?"
> >
> > could anyone clarify p.p. please? kinda hard for me without living 
> in LA in 1970 ))
> > Mx
> >
> just a guess but it might mean no money owed to bookies (horse) or 
> poker parlors (super pan 9).
>
> P
>
>
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