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Esquire’s Best and Worst Cocktails of 1934

Esquire magazine printed an article with the Ten Best Cocktails of 1934 - the year after Prohibition was repealed. They included at the end a list of the Worst cocktails as well. 

 

Esquire Best Worst Cocktails of 1934_1

 

Esquire’s link to the story is here, but it requires a subscription to view. 

DiffordsGuide has the list of best and worst, but not the entire article it comes from. 

Here’s the Worst list: 

Esquire Best Worst Cocktails of 1934_5

 

I’ve seen this list in a lot of places online, but never the full article, so I went to the San Francisco Public Library yesterday and took it out of the archives.

I didn’t realize that not only was Esquire huge in size something like 11 x 17 back then, but also had a ton of pages. It was basically a book every month.

 

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