the long walnut bar , its top inlaid with narrow wood strips , the tarnished beer tap standbud , pabst blue ribbon , hamm 's and stag , the local swill i drank in town whenever i was brokeand the deer portrait hanging over the back bar 's mirror , green-glowing lighted columns at each end of the mirror , half-filled sheets of bowling league standings tacked to the side wall , snapshots of family picnics and christmas dinners and ozarks vacations taped on every spare surface .