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The Blue Bike Cocktail is August 4th Drink of the Day

August 4, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

On what we, today, would consider an uncomfortable bicycle ride for only a mile, Thomas Stevens rode his nickle-plated wheeled, 50″ Columbia Penny-Farthing Bicycle 3700 miles and reached his destination of Boston, Mass, on this day in 1884. He had left San Fransisco on April 22nd. This was a feat that is remarkable considering the [...]

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The Cable Car Cocktail is August 1st Drink of the Day!

August 1, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Due to the steep terrain of the San Fransisco roads, horses were being over excerted. Something else had to be a better way of getting people up and down hills throughout the city, There had to be something that could be done to not only save the horses from dying of exhaustion. On this date [...]

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The Cooperstown Cocktail is June 12th Drink of the Day!!

June 12, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

On this day in 1939, after being established three years earlier, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York opened it’s doors to the public. Funded by private interests, it was opened to celebrate the best of the best in baseball and to enshrine their accomplishments for all to see. After this year, there [...]

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