Was at a pub on Sunday and spotted this above the door. First time I've spotted anything like it on a non-Masonic building. Is this a common thing?
>>18027437
Yes, it's common.
Learn to rotate your pictures.
>>18027439
Fuck, sorry. I'm on iOS, it appears upright on my phone.
>>18027445
+ Camera phones store orientation in .exif
+ 4chan strips .exif
+ pics end up being posted oriented weird ways
One Solution: Open pics in M$Paint, save oriented correctly as new named pic, post that pic. -M$Paint doesn't use .exif for orientation, 4chan posts pic correctly
>>18027437
Could just mean that freemason's helped build it
>>18027437
It might be a lodge building. Always used to be the done thing that lodges met in taverns, in their private rooms.
But given that you're in America, might just be a business they own, or have helped out with, or the owner is just a bro.
>>18027468
Thanks
>>18027521
It's UK but good point about the meetings. I'd imagine lots of pubs were/are used but never seen this before. Of course now I've seen one I'm going to see others.
>>18027513
You call that implying?
>>18027539
>UK
Curious that they'd use American symbols, but i guess they're more available on ebay.
>>18027437
It could be a marker for Turtles.
Very common. At the Indian Casino outside my city on a reservation, there is a big Freemason plaque in the entrance lobby area. It's pretty normal
>>18028098
Them Injuns will glomp onto anything, though.
Yeah, it's just a meeting place. That's always been the way. Dedicated lodge rooms/buildings are much rarer than simply meeting in function rooms of coffee shops and bars. There's actually an engraving from the 1700s that lists out their known meeting places in England, most of which are bars.
>>18027437
>>18032091
This basically. While the Freemasons have some occult secrets, they used to just be tradesmen who met in bars and even now they still meet in a lot of bar back rooms.