Pubs

" It was nearly twenty hours, and the drinking shops which the proles frequented ("pubs," they called them) ..." (Orwell, 84).

Although the Party has tried to destroy any evidence of prior societies, Orwell has just showed the readers that they were not completely successful. "Pub" is a word that has been used for hundreds of years and that continues to be used today. If the proles still call the drinking shops "pubs", then there is still some people who remember the days before the Party. Pub is a slang word for public house, which shows the reader that there are still community centers for the general public.