donbosco
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I very clearly remember when Tijuana Fats' on Rosemary Street opened its doors at 11 am for early lunch-goers and there would be two or three fellows show up pretty soon afterward, newspapers in hand, to sit at the bar, have an enchilada and drink through into the afternoon. One of them was a third shifter who has, last I heard, given up alcohol. I'm not sure what became of the others.
I also remember seeing drinkers perched at the bar pretty early in the day at The Carolina Coffee Shop on Franklin having morning Bloodies and Boilermakers. In those days it was the earliest mixed drink in town until Breadmen's went full liquor bar.
In Guatemala I was acquainted for many years with a group of old expatriate eccentrics that met every morning around 8:30 am to polish off a fifth of rum with OJ at a table at the now long defunct Restaurante San Marcos with a good view of the park and El Volcán Agua.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/.../londons-pubs-open...
“'In the past, everyone drank all day—men, women, and children,' says Paul Jennings, pub historian and author of A History of Drink and the English. As recently as 100 years ago, all London pubs opened in the morning, and they’d fill with people having an early drink."
“The time when Americans drank all day long”: The time when Americans drank all day long - BBC News
I also remember seeing drinkers perched at the bar pretty early in the day at The Carolina Coffee Shop on Franklin having morning Bloodies and Boilermakers. In those days it was the earliest mixed drink in town until Breadmen's went full liquor bar.
In Guatemala I was acquainted for many years with a group of old expatriate eccentrics that met every morning around 8:30 am to polish off a fifth of rum with OJ at a table at the now long defunct Restaurante San Marcos with a good view of the park and El Volcán Agua.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/.../londons-pubs-open...
“'In the past, everyone drank all day—men, women, and children,' says Paul Jennings, pub historian and author of A History of Drink and the English. As recently as 100 years ago, all London pubs opened in the morning, and they’d fill with people having an early drink."
“The time when Americans drank all day long”: The time when Americans drank all day long - BBC News