Stork Club Liquor Label - Gin 1940s America a downstairs bar that remained

a downstairs bar that remained wet throughout the official ban on alcohol

once they had been given the once-over by the nightclub impresario or one of his lieutenants

Dudley and operated by the United Hotels Company

apparently popular with their local police force

who had so lovingly guided it for decades

Stork Club Liquor Label - Gin 1940s America a downstairs bar that remainedSherman Billingsley was a former bootlegger from Oklahoma who created what was arguably the most famous restaurant and nightclub in the world the Stork Club in New York. From the 1920s and through the following four decades, it was the place where high society sophisticates, Hollywood and Broadway stars, businessman and politicians came to let their hair down. Ordinary but moneyed folks also made it past the solid gold chain at the entrance to the