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FIND| Your grandparents got strange too
Some of the revelers on view at Keggers of Yore. You remember My Parents Were Awesome, right? Well if you got a chuckle looking at all those beehive hairdos and David Cassidy impersonators, you should...
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GIFT| 1940s St. Lawrence stationery is a real treasure
St. Lawrence stationery from about 1940. I recently received an unused box of notepaper and envelopes as a gift. When we got a bit of the gang together a few weeks ago, we asked everyone to bring...
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COCKTAILS | This Bastard hardly suffers
The Suffering Bastard, a new fascination. First concocted as a hangover cure at the old Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo during World War II by Joe Scialom, the Suffering Bastard is a classic cocktail I...
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MAPS | USGS bonanza online, courtesy of U.N.H.
A detail from the 1891 U.S. Geological Survey map of the Harlem, NY-NJ Quadrangle that shows southern Westchester County. As you may have guessed from various posts over the two years I’ve been...
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COCKTAILS | Drop into the Stork Club
The Stork Club cocktail, a liquid relic of Old New York. A couple of evenings ago, deterred from going out to dinner by the arctic cold, we turned to Dale DeGroff. No, we didn’t ring him up; we opened...
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