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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: August 9, 2009
Caption: “Nunc Est Bibendum”
Additional Description: [Sign Located to the Right of Entrance Doors:]
Head Bartender at the Delta Saloon in 1863 was Prof. Jerry Thomas, most celebrated barman in American history. Coming to Virginia City, according to the Territorial Enterprise of that year, from the Occidental in San Francisco, he did much to elevate the tastes and drinking habits of the then uncouth Comstock.

Prof. Thomas later became Head Bartender at the Planters House, St. Louis where he invented the cold weather drink that to this day behrs his name: Tom & Jerry. Gentlemen and Perfectionist, Nevada does honor to his memory.
Submitted: August 22, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p74819
File Size: 0.020 Megabytes

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