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The Fabled Pour

The library

Cocktail history, shelved by era

Where drinks came from, told from the record. Where the record runs out and the stories begin, we say so.

  1. The tiki era 1934 to 1980

    • The tiki era · 1934 to 1980

      Tiki and the invented tropics

      A Hollywood bar in 1934, an Oakland rival, a Mai Tai with two fathers and a Puerto Rican hotel drink: the tropical cocktail was an American invention, and the people whose islands it borrowed have something to say about it.

      6 min read · 9 sources