Comments on: The ‘Boston’ cocktail mystery http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/ Bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jonathan http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-23993 Jonathan Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:01:55 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/#comment-23993 It might be interesting to look at cocktail references in late 19th/early 20th periodicals, e.g., The Atlantic (for which premium archive is here: http://bit.ly/2JyNvb and a free one here http://bit.ly/31Iy9i ) I did a quick look at the free archive and didn't turn up anything -- but maybe a little more work might yield some fruit. Another source might be Google Book Search as well -- a quick one on Boston Cooler turned up a few interesting results and a bunch of not interesting ones. Look forward to seeing if anything more turns up. It might be interesting to look at cocktail references in late 19th/early 20th periodicals, e.g., The Atlantic (for which premium archive is here: http://bit.ly/2JyNvb and a free one here http://bit.ly/31Iy9i ) I did a quick look at the free archive and didn’t turn up anything — but maybe a little more work might yield some fruit. Another source might be Google Book Search as well — a quick one on Boston Cooler turned up a few interesting results and a bunch of not interesting ones. Look forward to seeing if anything more turns up.

]]> By: ljclark http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-23959 ljclark Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:54:19 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/#comment-23959 Old Mr. Boston was a marketing figure dreamed up by Berke Brothers Distilleries, which opened in Roxbury, MA right after Prohibition in 1933. Here's an article about it from the Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/28/looking_for_mr_boston/ Here's an even better one from the Modern Drunkard (scroll down): http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/52/52-icons-.html Old Mr. Boston was a marketing figure dreamed up by Berke Brothers Distilleries, which opened in Roxbury, MA right after Prohibition in 1933. Here’s an article about it from the Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/28/looking_for_mr_boston/

Here’s an even better one from the Modern Drunkard (scroll down): http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/52/52-icons-.html

]]> By: Adam http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-23945 Adam Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:16:20 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2008/10/13/the-boston-cocktail-mystery/#comment-23945 Another question (perhaps easier to answer?): Why is the Mr. Boston book called Mr. Boston? Another question (perhaps easier to answer?): Why is the Mr. Boston book called Mr. Boston?

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