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Some criticized the Commission’s decision. Ben Gange, who has been in the bar for 40 years, said he believed the commission could have left Silver Dollar open for July 4th.
Angela Grigsby said she has been coming to the silver dollar for about 10 years and is considering starting a petition to keep the bar open. It was one of the first bars in Mandan that made her feel accepted after moving from Washington. Grigsby, who is Cherokee, Apache, Irish, English and Spanish, said she doesn’t feel accepted in some other bars because of her race.
A large banner with the words “Happy Birthday Angie!” Hung under the Budweiser sign. Grigsby said staff and other patrons signed the banner for her birthday last Friday.
“It’s sad, it’s really sad,” she said. “I mean, it’s a staple. Everyone knows Silver Dollar.”
Felton said he plans to appeal the commission’s 3-2 decision to refuse the license.
The Mandan Police Department recommended that the license be withheld. Deputy boss Lori Flaten said in a document attached to a case report of alcohol law violations that there was an attack on the bar in April and that there was a video floating around last fall of a half-naked woman who was in the bar dances, as well as concerns about being stabbed at a street dance and the fact that Felton ran the bar without a liquor license in his name.
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