Come off it Mark you know as well as I do that the term 'Happy Hour' is a marketing one. Not sure but I think it may originally have referred to the practice of discounting prices for an hour somewhere or another but when the marketing men promoted the practice of discounting prices for a period of time they retained the expression but the 'hour' became extremely flexible.
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One possible origin of the term is from the United States Navy. In the 1920s, "Happy Hour" was slang for a scheduled entertainment period on board a ship during which boxing and wrestling bouts took place; this was a valuable opportunity for sailors to relieve the stress accumulated during the long periods at sea.
The idea of drinking before dinner has its roots in the Prohibition era. When the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were passed banning alcohol consumption, citizens would host "****tail hours", also known as "happy hours", at a speakeasy (an illegal drinking establishment) before eating at restaurants where alcohol could not be served. ****tail lounges continued the trend of drinking before dinner.
"Happy hour" entered civilian use around 1960, especially after a Saturday Evening Post article on military life in 1959.
Just a reminder to those traveling by omnibus it will be roughly a Sunday service on those routes that operate.
Omnibus? We all have to dress up as characters from Charles Dickens novels now do we? :D It's fortunate then that Dartford fans will turning up in horse drawn carts :)
