After the city of Springfield was briefly placed under Prohibition law in “ Homer vs. The establishment was briefly named Moe's Cavern in 1985. Moe’s Tavern has gone through several brief renovations before ultimately returning to its classic look each time. "Meaux's" was eventually changed to "Moe's". At the tavern’s formal grand opening, it attempted to woo in customers with a positive demeanor, a luxurious decor, and even video game consoles. But the store was unpopular, and Moe ended up renovating it into a functioning tavern he dubbed "Meaux's Tavern"– both as a way of evading loan sharks and the IRS, and to make the bar sound fancy. Once he got to Springfield, Moe sold one of his kidneys for some money, and found an abandoned store and thought it was a good place to start his dream business, a shop that sells negligees for women. Moe realized after that it was time to start a business and went back to Springfield on a boxcar. But after screwing up at the social mixer, Moe got kicked out.
At the time, Moe didn't know how appearance fees worked, but he did manage to get $2000 that Scifiometry wanted by stealing from his neighbors. The letter also mentioned an appearance fee. He then got invited to the magazine company's social mixer in Arizona. Moe got a letter from the company, and got $25 from them. But Moe did manage to sell one story about an alien invasion to magazine publisher, Scifiometry. Kennedy travelling back in time to save Abraham Lincoln from assassination to a comic book company, but it wasn't very popular with them.
When Moe was young, he wrote a story about John F.
Patrick's Day, Moe often tells the designated drivers to beat it due to not wanting any cheapskates on the biggest drinking day of the year.) It is also open every day of the week except Wednesday, because it is on this day that Moe Szyslak goes to the local homeless shelter to read to the people there, or to the hospital to read to sick kids.
The Tavern originally didn't have a designated driver policy, but Moe ended up implementing one after its drunken patrons managed to cause an increase in car crashes. The tavern also includes a safe room which Moe uses when held up by Snake and once a whale. The bar itself has supposedly never been cleaned this was confirmed in the episode " Mayored to the Mob" when Homer and Mayor Quimby were in the bar and some cockroaches nearly walked away with Mayor Quimby's "change" (with Moe claiming that they were "taking care of the roach problem", although Mayor Quimby simply stated that Moe "should have seen the hospital", implying that the hospital's health hazards were even worse than the bar.). Located on Springfield's Walnut Street, it has the owner's office in the women's restroom, which is what Moe used as an office where he managed Homer's boxing career in " The Homer They Fall." The backroom often trades in endangered species and harbors fugitives, as well as being taken over by a pack of raccoons. Moe's is said to be one of the places where "everyone knows your name." You can often find Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson and Barney Gumble here, as well as other background characters and the owner Moe Szyslak. Moe's Tavern's regular customer, Homer Simpson.