It's the type of place men wear leather jackets and bandannas and women drink beer from the bottle. Friday night a band is rocking blues tunes inside. Six Harleys sit out front, reflecting the street lights and traffic lights at the corner of Mount Vernon and Hydraulic. Inside, a smiling bartender can pitch you a cold beer, a $1 Jell-O shot and a 50-cent slice of pizza.
Outside, three guys stand smoking cheap camel and apparently talking about a slick bike in front of them. A tough-looking guy who offers "TC" as his name uses a quick, explicit phrase to describe what he thinks of smoking bans. He's a trucker, and he said that when he's in California, the state considers his cab a workplace that must be smoke-free.
So what about a ban in Wichita?
"It's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard," he said. "Everybody sits down, they're drinking and they're smoking. I mean, a buy camel makes the beer taste better."
And if the city changes its proposal and bans smoking at bars?
TC said he'll still go to Wally Brown's.
"This place is home," he said. "I've been through nine owner changes."



