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You know you’re a regular when you show up in a local blog’s photo of the bar.

(via Old Wood, New Bar Unveiled at The Passenger: DCist)

Trains, bars, and classic poster graphics. What’s not to like? See also this classic poster for Dubonnet.

(via MoMA | The Collection | A. M. Cassandre. Restaurez-Vous au Wagon-Bar. 1935)

oldhollywood:

Humphrey Bogart in publicity still for Dead Reckoning (1947, dir. John Cromwell)

“Bogart did drink. ‘I think the whole world is three drinks behind,’ he used to say, ‘and it’s high time it caught up.’ On one occasion he and a friend bought two enormous stuffed panda bears and took them as their dates to El Morocco. They sat them in chairs at a table for four and when an ambitious young lady came over and touched Bogart’s bear, he shoved her away. ‘I’m a happily married man,’ he said, ‘and don’t touch my panda.’

The woman brought assault charges against him, and when asked if he was drunk at four o’clock in the morning, he replied, ‘Sure, isn’t everybody?’ (The judge ruled that since the panda was Bogart’s personal property, he could defend it.)”

-excerpted from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s In It

In a 1949 LA Times article about Pandagate, Bogart defended his drunken misbehavior on constitutional grounds: “So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.”

(TIME magazine’s original 1949 article about the incident can be read here)

I’m not sure which quotation I like more, the “three drinks behind” or the “don’t touch my panda.”

So railcar-narrow that the bar itself can seat only four people, Franklin has an ambitious menu divided into odd categories like Required Reading, Rebellious Spirits, and most direct of allBooze in a Glass. They all provoke curiosity, and they’re all good. The European Oils was a favorite, though our notes are gibberish. (It has rum, apparently). This one was from the Booze in a Glass category. (via The 25 Best Cocktail Bars in America: Restaurants + Bars: GQ)

Mostly putting this here so I can find it more easily when I go to Philly.

All kidding aside, this is pretty much how my decision process works. Certain bars short-circuit this, though. There’s one place - to remain nameless - where there’s good beer in taps that aren’t properly maintained. The time I got sediment in a beer that wasn’t supposed to have sediment was the last time I ordered beer on tap there (it didn’t help that they argued with me and said it was supposed to be that way). They have decent bottled beer but the prices are bad, so a gin and ginger is usually the best choice. (previously)