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Cocktail Artist Seeks Appointment in Shanghai – 1930

Posted: May 11th, 2016 | No Comments »

1930 and an apparently excellent “cocktail artist” (nowadayas they like to be known as “mixologists”; most of us know them less prosaically as “barmen”) wants a job in Shanghai. Not a bad choice – cocktails were becoming quite the thing, though he might have found himself spending his most of his time mixing simple stengahs and chota pegs. I wonder if ever got a job and, if so, where?

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