
My go to neighborhood bar has an older clientele (mostly 50+), and I got to talking to one of the regulars about the Unicard system parts of Texas used to have. It was a little before my time, but I remember it. He said he had been drinking long enough that they had sent him a gold plated one. This isn't his, but closest I could find to what he was talking about. I told him he should frame it.
For context: there was a time in parts of Texas where you had to have a specific card that allowed you to access bars. By the time I started drinking in my town, this was replaced with the "private club" system. Which really just meant you had to enroll to be a member at each bar in order to drink there. Once a year you swipe your ID, sign a ticket, and voila, you are now a member of that private club. Always free. Just a tiny extra step along your route to being wildly over served at college bars.