Yellow Flag

The Yellow Flag (イエロー・フラッグ Ierō Furaggu), sometimes called the Yellow Flag Bar, is a bar owned by Bao, which he opened up after settling in Roanapur after the Vietnam War. Accordingly, the bar is named after South Vietnam's yellow flag. A recurring theme in the Black Lagoon series is that the bar is often destroyed when major fights take place, with Bao frequently telling Revy that she owes him money for the damage done. The bar has a brothel upstairs called the Sloppy Swing run by a woman called Madam Flora.

Black Lagoon history

After defecting from the ARVN near the end of the Vietnam War, Bao went to Roanapur in Thailand, where he and a fellow Vietnamese friend founded the Yellow Flag in 1978, and the bar also took in other fugitive AWOL soldiers. According to him, from the bar's founding to mid-1996, the Yellow Flag has been partially trashed a total of fifteen times and totally destroyed six times, with some of the incidents involving Revy. Bao is a neutral man in Roanapur and accordingly provides information about the city's various crime syndicates to anyone who is willing to pay the right price for it. Many thugs in Roanapur visit the establishment and start fights there, and due to the violent nature of Roanapur and the frequent shootouts, the bar has a built-in bulletproof steel plating installed, which can withstand .50-cal ammunition. Unlike various other businesses in Roanapur, the Yellow Flag is located in neutral territory and is not associated with any crime syndicate.

At one point, Bao started a no-weapons policy at the bar, but on the first day that the rule took effect, robbers took advantage of the policy to rob unarmed customers, prompting him to immediately revoke the policy. Additionally, Bao frequently hires Sawyer the Cleaner's company to clean up blood stains and even corpses on occasion as a result of the bar's gunfights. The Yellow Flag also has a Vietnamese cook, Nhân, affiliated with Bao.

Black Lagoon

Bao, the founder & owner of the Yellow Flag

After Revy took Rokurō Okajima as a hostage, she, Dutch and Benny went to the Yellow Flag to await further instructions for giving a stolen disk to Balalaika of Hotel Moscow. In the bar, Rokurō was surprised at the bar's unbridled hooligan atmosphere, and Dutch told him about the bar's history of a refuge for ARVN soldiers. Walking to the bar's payphone to speak with Balalaika, Dutch gave the nickname "Rock" to Rokurō, baffling him. Sitting next to the exhausted Rock, Benny smilingly recalled his own brief history of how he was hunted by both the FBI and the mafia in Florida until Revy saved him. Interrupting Benny, she then teased Rock about his alleged inability to hold his alcohol. Annoyed, he drank a whole glass of alcohol to provoke her, and both of them demanded that Bao bring them all of the Bacardi that he had. Nearby, Dutch heard from Balalaika over the phone that Asahi Heavy Industrial Co. had contacted the Extra Order mercenary company to kill his crew, advising him to stay sharp since E.O. had a lot of ex-soldier employees.

As Revy and Rock continued their drinking contest, the E.O. Captain and his Extra Order mercenaries started shooting into the bar, forcing those who avoided the bullets to take cover, including the shotgun-armed Bao. When Revy jumped behind the counter as well, she noticed that the counter protected them well, which Bao confirmed by stating that he had the bar bulletproofed to even withstand .50 caliber rounds. As the shooting continued and Rock was terrified, Benny ran to the back exit while Dutch covered him. Bao shot a nearby mercenary and angrily demanded that Revy deal with the mercenaries or he would "weld [her] asshole shut and make a new one from [her] head," so Revy drew her double pistols and she and Dutch shot over a dozen mercenaries dead to ensure the Lagoon Company's escape. Although hesitant to do so, Dutch allowed Rock to escape with him. In the end, outside the trashed bar, Storm relayed to the E.O. Captain that the enemy had killed sixteen of their mercenaries and wounded eight others.

Chase for ring-ding ships

After the Lagoon crew dealt with Chen and Luak's attempt to kill them, Dutch told his crew mates that they could celebrate at the Yellow Flag to make up for the hoax job. Becoming excited, the ecstatic Revy asked if they could stay there all night. As they began heading to the bar, Revy berated Rock for not wearing the Hawaiian shirt that she bought for him.

Rasta Blasta

Sometime after the Extra Order's rampage, Bao had the damage to his bar repaired, and the Lagoon crew once more headed to the Yellow Flag to wait on delivering Garcia Lovelace to the Manisarera Cartel at Hat Yai because of suspicious circumstances. Inside the bar, while they waited at a table with the boy, Roberta arrived at the bar and sat at the counter. Bao was surprised by her maid outfit and told her that he did not sell milk since his business was a bar. When she asked him for information on the Manisarera Cartel, Bao slammed a glass of beer onto the counter for her and retorted that he was not a tourist center.

Although calm on the outside, Roberta told Bao that her glass had a crack in it and wanted another one, shattering the glass with her hand. At that point, members of the Manisarera Cartel walked into the bar (in the anime, the Lagoon Company arrived at the bar after Roberta and the Cartel arrived there). The Manisarera thugs asked Roberta what she wanted with them, and she told them that she was a servant to the Lovelace family and stated that she would have to be rude.

When the cartel members laughed, Roberta started shooting at them with her various weapons, angering Bao since he just had the Yellow Flag repaired. While hiding behind the counter, he saw Revy crawling away, making him shout at her since he thought that Roberta was another "friend" of hers. Immediately after Bao shouted at her, the Manisarera Cartel leader asked the Lagoon Company why they brought Garcia to the bar, causing Roberta to change her target to the Lagoon Company.

After Revy held Garcia at gunpoint, she let go of the boy and started shooting at Roberta while running toward Bao, who told her to screw off. As she jumped over the counter, Roberta fired a round which hit Revy and knocked her against the bar cupboards, knocking her unconscious. When Roberta became shocked that Garcia wanted to go away with the Lagoon Company, the remaining cartel members pointed their guns at her, so Roberta dropped several grenades from her dress, blowing up the bar and engulfing the bar in flames. After Roberta left to pursue Garcia's abductors who already escaped, Bao knelt outside the bar crying, but unknown to him at that moment, Balalaika planned to have Hotel Moscow cover his insurance as part of her favor to Dutch.

Bloodsport Fairy tale

When two more members of Hotel Moscow, Sakharov and Menshov, got murdered, Balalaika offered a $50,000 bounty for finding the murderers. When Revy and Rock visited the Yellow Flag once again, the bartender told the two about the bounty. Revy and Rock talked about who the murderers could possibly be, and Bao remarked that he did not care about the bounty and only wanted his bar to not be destroyed once more. Soon, Eda arrived at the bar to tell Revy about the bounty, but Bao informed her that he already told Revy in addition to most people in town already knowing about the bounty, disappointing her. Nonetheless, Eda ordered a drink from Bao and paid him for it, telling Revy and Rock about several bounty hunters coming to town for the bounty and how Green Tooth Johnny had even purchased an elephant rifle from the Rip-Off Church. Moreover, Eda informed the two about how Balalaika was on high alert as a result of the murders at the Caribbean Bar that morning.

Greenback Jane

After Eda concocted a plan to rescue Jane, she dragged Revy with her to the Yellow Flag, where they waited for Rock to arrive with Benny's car. After Eda tipped Bao for a drink, the two women left the bar. At the same time as they left, Russell was at a table to meet the many bounty hunters whom he hired to capture Jane, discussing the details of what Jane looked like and where she was staying. After many of the bounty hunters, including Shenhua and Quentin the Tiger, made fun of Russell for his bossiness and condescension as well as being surprised by Sawyer the Cleaner's true appearance and the newcomers Lotton and Claude "Torch" Weaver, the mercenaries left the bar to pursue Jane.

El Baile de la muerte / Roberta's Blood Trail

When rumor spread throughout Roanapur about sightings of Roberta, Revy and Rock were at the Yellow Flag when Bao told them that some guys told him that they saw Roberta, making the two think that he was joking. Afterward, they went back to the Lagoon Company office and Bao called Dutch to recount his encounter with Roberta. While he was cleaning up the bar before opening, Roberta arrived at his bar while it was closed and asked him for a bottle of tequila. Completely scared of her, Bao gave her the entire bottle, which she drank quickly and then asked Bao for every shop that could help her wage a war. The terrified bartender then directed her to some places and she left, with Bao remarking to Dutch that he would have wet his pants if not for his steel bladder.

Dutch assured Bao that he had no information on Roberta's whereabouts or motivation in the city, adding that he promised to call back if he heard anything else. After the call, Dutch told Revy and Rock that he and Benny would meet them at the Yellow Flag later after asking his sources around town, so Revy and Rock went to the bar to talk to Bao. As Bao complained to the two that his bar had been destroyed 15 times, Biu Yuyun and his men of the Hong Kong Triad exited from the brothel upstairs above the bar, requesting Bao to call him back if he learned anything since no one in the brothel had any recent information on Roberta. Continuing their conversation, Bao stated to Rock and Revy that he did not like the look that he saw on Roberta's face, elaborating that he saw the same face in South Vietnam on a paratrooper lieutenant colonel who made a big decision while defending the Tan Son Nhut Air Base from the PAVN's last attack in the Vietnam War. At that point, Gustavo and his men from the Colombian Cartel entered the bar, with Gustavo asking Bao for drinks for him and his men. As Gustavo and Revy exchanged information on Roberta, the maid Fabiola Iglesias walked into the bar, terrifying Bao since she had the same maid outfit as Roberta.

After Fabiola explained that she sought out Rock and was grabbed up by José, Gustavo ordered his men to search her belongings but found no weapons. Feeling that she made a mistake, Fabiola asked Gustavo if he was going to torture her if she refused to talk, but he assured her that he would not torture a child. Upon hearing his answer, she swung her shoe behind her and stabbed José in the testicles, angering the Colombians. Bao angrily told everyone to take their fight outside, but Gustavo pointed a gun at his head and told his men to search Fabiola. Just then, the bartender noticed that Revy took a bottle of Bacardi, and she purposefully dropped it onto the ground to startle the men, allowing Fabiola to pull out her weapons. As a gunfight between the young maid and the Colombians ensued, Bao hid behind his counter and asked Revy why she dropped the bottle, but she only responded that she was having fun.

When Fabiola easily fought against the cartel members, the shocked Gustavo asked Bao for his phone, but the bartender refused to let him use it. Nonetheless, Gustavo fought with the bartender for control of the bar's telephone and called for reinforcements. In Gustavo's panic, he ordered his men to point their machine guns at the bar and just shoot, making the infuriated Bao cut the telephone's line. As the powerful machine guns tore the bar apart, Fabiola still remained unharmed, surprising both Gustavo and Bao. Fabiola threatened the men to leave and take their wounded or she would kill them, and she fired a grenade from her China Lake Launcher at the machine-gunner cars outside, forcing the men to flee. Behind the counter, Gustavo asked Bao for a backdoor, to which the bartender replied that Gustavo already made plenty of doors with the gunfire. In the end, Revy forced Gustavo to leave when he pointed his gun at Fabiola, and Bao's bar was completely destroyed. Dutch and Benny arrived outside and were slightly surprised at the Yellow Flag's destruction, and they drove the three to Sankan Palace Hotel.

Later, when Rock agreed to help Fabiola and Garcia, they visited Bao, who was sitting in an inflated pool with some women outside the bar since it was closed until further repair. Madam Flora saw Rock and introduced herself to him, and Bao told Rock that she was the manager of the brothel upstairs. At that point, Garcia realized that Fabiola was partially responsible for the bar's destruction, causing her to assure him that it was not her intention. Rock asked Bao if he was the first person whom Roberta visited, and Bao refused to talk further since he did not want anymore trouble for his bar. Rock said that his job was commissioned by the Hong Kong Triad, so Bao gave him the information on the condition that Rock would never acknowledge that their conversation happened.

The Wired Red Wild Card

When Jane returned to Roanapur, she met up with her boyfriend Benny at the Yellow Flag, with Bao feeling uncomfortable about Jane's sexual display of affection toward Benny. Bao told Jane that if she wanted to screw around with Benny, then she could rent one of the rooms above the bar for only $30 for one night, enticing Jane. Benny then warned Jane that if they did rent the room, then Bao would be selling their sex tape across town. Upon hearing this, Jane replied to Bao that he should be paying her if she was going to rent the room, confusing Benny and angering Bao.

Rock interrupted them to remind them that they needed to find Jane's assistant Feng Yifei, who would be arriving in the city soon. Jane remarked that Feng should be fine, but Bao responded that she was naïve for thinking that newcomers to Roanapur would not be spotted easily. When Benny asked for a photo of Feng to learn what she looks like, Jane showed a photo of Feng in a PLA uniform to Bao, Rock and Benny, surprising them. Seeing that it was close to sunset, Rock and Benny decided to leave the bar to look for Feng, with Jane wanting to tag along with Benny. Another day later, Rock drove to the Yellow Flag to relax with Revy and stopped the car near the bar, but the panicking Feng halted their plans by pointing a gun at Rock, claiming that she did not want to hurt anyone. Immediately, a gunfight between Revy and Feng ensued until they were interrupted by The Quartet, who was hired to kill Feng, so Rock drove the car away from the bar onto the streets.

That night, when Revy took Feng to the Yellow Flag Bar to talk, Bao's customers asked him why there was so much tension between the two women. Grumbling that he had no idea and did not care, Bao advised them to quit staring at the women and avoid involvement. Subsequently, Feng commented that she would rather die by being shot by Revy than being killed by her bosses. Putting her glass down, Revy stated that she brought Feng to the bar since she could solve each other's problems, confusing Feng. Revy told her that there was a chance that her company could also be targeted, so she needed a chance to plan. Feng raised her glass and told Revy that her grandfather told her that people should not think about their actions and just run, remarking that people were made to reach their destinations. Before continuing her explanation, Revy asked Feng why she had her eye on Rock, and she replied that Rock was an outsider like her, yet he had a grasp on how Roanapur operated. Afterward, Feng brought the greatly drunk Revy out of the bar to Rock's place.

Rock and Bao conversing

After Feng finished her decryption of emails between the PLA and a former Sigurimi official, Rock went to the Yellow Flag Bar to meet up with Eda of the Rip-Off Church. While waiting for her, he asked Bao for some alcohol. As Bao poured the drink, he asked Rock if he should even be at the bar since Revy was detained by the Roanapur City Police. Rock sipped his drink and asked Bao if he recently heard anything about the Italians, with Bao noting that his question was quite forward. Rock asked if it was the money, but Bao said his hesitation was because the risk of the Italians being on edge. Rock asked if their trouble was with the Albanians, to which Bao wondered why Rock came to him if he already knew the information. He told Bao that he did not know why the feud was ongoing, adding that Bao knew him enough that he would pay him well for the information.

Keeping a stern look on his face, Bao explained that the Italians offered to launder the newcomer Albanian Mafia's gold as a gesture of goodwill, but the "washing machine" to launder the gold bullion somehow crashed and got lost, freaking out the Italians. As Rock asked another question about the machine, Eda entered the bar with Rico, and Bao stood by and listened to the three of them discuss Rock's request for the Rip-Off Church to free Revy from jail and to gather intelligence on relations between the Italians and Albanians. In return, Rock promised to show the Lagoon Company's list of shipments and clients from the beginning of the year until April to the Rip-Off Church.

New Girl in the Hood

After Le Majeur had passed Dutch's test, she traveled with Rock and Revy to the Yellow Flag so that she could get a job. Inside, Revy greeted Bao and ordered Bacardi while Majeur had a singha and Rock had a Macallan 12. Slamming down a can of beer, Bao rhetorically asked if Majeur was the lucky survivor of the hunters of Black men, which Revy smilingly confirmed. Although remarking that Balalaika was only feeling charitable, Bao agreed that Majeur had quite the luck. Revy said that Majeur had a hard time finding a job while she was a pawn of Hotel Moscow, asking Bao if he had any jobs for her, to which Bao said that he could always use a bouncer. Majeur agreed and clarified that she could work if Hotel Moscow did not call for her, so Bao told her that she could also clean up the place before opening time since his back had been killing him lately. When Majeur recommended that he change the bar's music to something more cheerful, Bao expressed an irked face and remarked that last time he changed the music, another bar fight started.

As they continued talking, Eda, dressed in her casual outfit, walked in and leaned next to Majeur, asking if she was the sole survivor of Les Cinq Doigts. Complimenting Majeur surviving the Vysotniki, Eda commented that she wish she had Majeur's luck. Glaring at Eda, Majeur told her not to be so friendly with her, to which Eda joked to Revy that her friend was not very polite. Asking Eda if she thought she could treat her like a nobody, Majeur calmly threatened to kill Eda, who snidely told the "slant-eye" Majeur that she could try if she likes. Consequently, both women immediately attempted to draw their pistols until Revy slammed her glass onto the table, telling the two that they could settle their quarrel over drinks. Waving her hand to Bao, Revy ordered him to give them several rounds. As the drinks were poured, the two women were told that whoever passed out first would lose.

Seeing the drinking contest, several customers giddily shifted their attention onto the contest, but Bao told them that they had to put some money in to watch the spectacle. As several men began betting on Eda and Majeur, Revy served as referee and ordered them to begin, and the two women swung their heads up. As the women began drinking, Bao turned his head to the ex-salaryman Rock and told him that he would have to take care of the women if they passed out, with Rock awkwardly agreeing.

Light novel history

Ballad of the Sinful Wizard

In the second light novel Ballad of the Sinful Wizard, on another average night at the bar, Rock and Revy were drinking at the counter when the Californian woman Tricia O'Sullivan came to the bar and ordered a ginger ale, surprising Bao. Thinking that he recognized her, Rock offered her help since he deduced that she was lost, but she glared at him and rejected his help. At that point, as Rock left her alone, two Budaibang gangsters, Feng and Dun, ordered the woman to come with them, as they wanted to reunite her with her fiancé Zeng Kemin. As she refused to go with the men, Lotton showed up and threatened to deal justice to them if they harmed her. The gangsters turned their guns on him, so the Wizard threw his luggage at them.. The damaged pillow inside spread feathers everywhere, blocking the gangsters' vision and causing them to shoot recklessly around the bar. Irritated by the reckless firing, Revy shot both men dead, and Tricia left the bar with Lotton. Frustrated with the mess that Revy and both gangsters made, Bao commissioned Sawyer the Cleaner to dispose of the corpses and bullet holes. Subsequently, Sawyer traveled to the Yellow Flag and cleaned up the corpses and patched up the bullet holes in the walls, overhearing the details of the brief firefight from the pirates. Revy even asked Bao if she could get a reward for halting Feng and Dun's reckless shooting, but the latter only replied that he would pay her back by not banning her from his establishment.

Later, the Budaibang enforcer Lu Tao went to the bar since Feng and Dun did not come back from their search. He tried to ask Bao about anything strange, but the bartender paid him no attention. As he left, Lu Tao noticed the cleanup of the floor and wall. About a day later after he arranged a ransom exchange for Tricia's life, Rock went to the bar an hour before the deal was to go through, ordering a high amount of Bacardi from Bao due to the stress of his gamble. As he drank heavily, Eda visited the bar to check on information leaks since she, unknown to Rock, was the person who agreed to buy Tricia back from him. Bao interrupted her playful inquiry with Rock by asking her what she wanted to drink, so she pointed at Rock's glass. When Rock left 15 minutes before the ransom time, Eda stayed and asked Bao for another glass, but he refused her request, reminding her that Sister Yolanda would know if she drank too much.

After Rock managed to escape the deal alive and Eda could not kill him but saw that his ransom was a bluff, he went to the bar and began heavily drinking, ordering at least 5 glasses of alcohol from Bao. At the ex-salaryman's side, Revy recommended that Bao give him a glass of water, to which the bartender responded with a stern grumble. Bao then stood silently as Revy and Rock discussed the latter's recent actions and mistakes. Soon, Eda arrived at the bar and happily greeted them, with Bao giving her a bottle of Trois Riviere. Wanting to console Rock and drown their sorrows, the nun encouraged them to drink the bottle dry, so the three drank for the rest of the night.

Gore Gore Girl history

In the spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl, the bar has been a setting in several stories.

Volume 1

Shenhua, Sawyer and Lotton drank in the bar while discussing the suspicious job of their client Heo, and Sawyer got a little drunk whereas Lotton ordered a glass of milk straight from the bottle.

Volume 2

In another story, it was revealed that Roberta's massacre in the bar was so intense that even the Roanapur City Police had to investigate the scene, and Sawyer was hired by Bao to clean up the bloody aftermath.

Volume 3

Although the bar was not a setting, the Yellow Flag cook Nhân went to the beach to cook Dutch's leftover meat that he had from a client. Additionally, Nhân was a frequent customer of some meat sellers who, unknown to him, sold him human meat passed off as authentic Kobe beef.

Volume 4

Revy and Eda drank at the counter while Bao cleaned his shelf, and Eda teased Revy about Rock being alone with Sawyer for a cleaning job. Later, when Sawyer found a key at her workplace and furnished it into an earring, she showed off the key to Shenhua and Lotton while they were drinking. At the same time, three cops entered the bar and complained about losing a key whose description matched the one that Sawyer found, prompting Shenhua to warn her to leave the bar and get rid of the key earring. As the cops drunkenly talked about the situation, Bao once again spent his time discreetly eavesdropping and cleaning a glass.

Volume 6

Feng Yifei went to the bar by herself to drink and halfway through, Revy arrived by chance and drunkenly challenged her to a drinking contest, pouring a glass of wine. After Feng herself tried a bit of tequila and a shot of Betta, Revy broke the former's glasses, angering her. When Revy finished drinking an incredible amount of alcohol, Feng left her somewhere outside the bar onto the street as revenge for breaking her glasses. Sometime later when the whole town was searching for a killer named Wraith, several people at the bar argued about the killer's appearance while Revy and Eda drank at the counter since they had to wait for information on the killer's appearance and location from an informant. As they continued drinking, several men entered the bar to announce that the informant had been found dead, surprising the two women.

Volume 8

While Sawyer, Shenhua and Lotton were inside the bar, the power suddenly went out, so they lit a candle and decided to pass the time by telling scary stories. Shenhua began by telling a story about how she met a creepy-looking girl while on a failed job some months earlier. As she finished her tale, Revy and Rock showed up, with the former butting in and asking what they were doing. Shenhua only allowed her to stay because she offered them some alcohol. Revy believed that Japanese people were inherently skilled at telling scary stories, so she accordingly asked Rock to give them one. The ex-salaryman claimed he could not think of anything and confessed that the scariest thing to him was people. Hearing his comment, the other four cringed at his statement, causing Revy to yell at him for not reading the room. She advised him to think about any story for a moment, clarifying that she would volunteer to tell a more strange than scary story.

Smoking a cigarette, she commenced her story about how she was the only survivor of a gunfight between a large amount friends and enemies alike. Exhausted after the fight, she sat down on the curb and tried to light her cigarette but could not get a flame started. Next to her, an arm extended out and gave her a light. Right after blowing out the smoke, Revy was confused and looked to her side to only see dead bodies, shocking her. Concluding the story, she said that the smoke smelled like incense, making Shenhua ask if she liked it. Revy replied that she was tired, then asking Rock if he finally thought of something. Warning them not to get their hopes up, he remembered working overtime and all-nighters for a Japanese trading company and was losing his sanity. One time, he decided to get coffee and accordingly went into the hallway, where he saw a long line. Casting aside any doubts about the line being for coffee, he decided to wait in the line, which moved very slow. Though Revy and Shenhua were bored with the story, Rock continued talking and mentioned that the line progressed up the stairs and eventually onto the roof. Ahead, the salarymen in line began climbing the roof fence and jumped off the building.

When Rock began hypnotically climbing the fence and was close to jumping off, he suddenly heard a voice shout, "Okajima, what are you doing!?". Having woken up, Rock realized that he was asleep but alone, thus not knowing who woke him up. Irked, Revy remarked that his story was off-putting and insulted it as being bad. Turning to Lotton, Revy and Shenhua asked the "pretty boy" what story he had for them. The Wizard explained that he had a ghost photo instead of a story, agreeing to show it to them. Seeing that the photo of Lotton contained a faint apparition in the background, the other four thought that the person was a woman with an unflattering pose. As Sawyer examined the photo, she looked up and saw an eerie figure next to Lotton leaning to see the photo as well. To her fright, the figure noticed her staring and made a shush gesture toward her, immediately disappearing.

The others discussed the possibility of the apparition having a face until Revy ordered Sawyer to tell them a story. As the goth woman tried to speak up in hesitation, the lights in the Yellow Flag got their power back. Rock asked if they should continue with the scary stories, but Revy declined, reasoning that the atmosphere was not the same without a blackout. Though Rock suggested leaving for the night, Revy enthusiastically proposed telling erotic stories instead and requested that Sawyer go first. As the goth woman remained speechless and frightened, Revy asked for a strong shot of liquor.

Trivia

• As shown on various official Black Lagoon merchandise like T-shirts and shot glasses, the Yellow Flag's hours of operation are from 5:00 p.m. to daybreak.