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The Prohibition Era in Chicago may have been the biggest party. Due to the popularity of Public Enemy #1, Al Capone in those days, you will find more about that era in this town than any other in the United States, starting in the late 20s and moving right along through most of the 30s. […]
“The Man with a Thousand Voices”, Mel Blanc gave us the voices of some of our favorite Warner Brother’s Looney Toon cartoons. Characters such as Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester the Cat, Porky Pig to name a few, not many people with access to a TV can tell you they’ve never heard his voice. It […]
Happy Memorial Day everyone! This is a day to remember all of those who have sacraficed to ensure all our freedoms. There have been many wars that have been fought in our country’s history. Many service men and women, even today, lose their lives to make sure our families can have holidays such as the […]
The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, was ran for the first time in 1873 at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland. This race is also called the “Run for the Black-Eyed Susan”, named for the Maryland State flower. An interesting fact is that Black-Eyed Susans don’t go into bloom for another month, sometime […]
Considered “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” back in his day, Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson) celebrates this day as his birthday. Born in Kovno, part of the Russian Empire, in 1886, he did not know his real date of birth. So, he chose this day to celebrate it later on in life. Mr. Jolson was a […]
Gene Tunney, the American Heavyweight who’s known for beating Jack Dempsey twice (most notable the second fight known at the “Long-Count” fight to retain the heavyweight belt), was born on this day in 1897. In the first fight, in 1926, he won the heavyweight title from Dempsey, who had the title for seven years, (1919-1926). […]
In 1976, after years of testing and noise issues, Concorde took off on its first commercial flight voyage. In a joint effort between the Franch and English Governments, construction was started a decade earlier to build these supersonic passenger jets which would fly passengers from New York City to Europe in half the time of […]
On this day, in 1873, The Temporary Northwest Counsil, the first governing body of the Northwest Territory of Canada, formed the North West Mounted Police. Due to the lack of policing and government in the region, out-of-control activities were taking place, especially bootlegging, and Canada wanted to get some police in there before it was […]
Today I was unable to find an interesting enough tie-in with the history to go along with the drink-of-the-day. So, I will use this time to introduce you to another original cocktail of mine. The Fashionable is a rum cocktail that I came up with that is fun to make as it is fun to […]
On this date, in 1956, the first air-drop test of the Hydrogen Bomb took place in the Pacific Ocean in an area called the Bikini Atoll. The H-Bomb is known as a thermonuclear bomb due to the high temperatures that are needed to initiate fusion reactions and ignition of the bomb. Unlike the atomic bomb, […]
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