 Joe Anthony had bought the property, which was a bar named Tommy's, and refurbished it into Mary's.Mary's was bought by Jim "Fanny" Farmer in 1970, with Cliff Owens becoming co-owner sometime in the late 1970s.In Mary's early days, it became tradition for patrons' underwear to be hung from the rafters, until the state health department required the bar to take them down in the late 1980s.