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The building that currently houses the Showboat Saloon was built in 1907 by William and Minnie Stanton.  From the time this building was constructed and continuing on today, it housed a local bar.  Only when Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, was the bar founded by the Stanton family forced to take a hiatus from serving alcoholic beverages.  Federal law caused the Stantons to alter their family business from a local watering hole to a candy shop.  Therefore, from 1920 through the Eighteenth Amendment repeal in 1933, this building became home to Stanton's Sweet Shop.  To this day it is unknown whether or not the Stantons made their alcoholic drinks available through a speakeasy in the basement.  Such covert underground drinking establishments were quite common, enabling businesspeople similar to the Stantons to serve their guests privately. 

Today the Showboat Saloon is still ran with the same basic principles established by the original owners.  The tradition of great service, good music, and memory-making times founded by the Stanton family continues on...