Drum Room Cocktail Menu
Detroit, Printing Service, 1933. Hotel Hayes, Jackson Mich. Drum Room Cocktail Menu. Printing Service Inc: Detroit, 1933. (190x190mm) red and cream, volvelle for 27 cocktails. lightly soiled & agetoned
Ephemera
ROOT, F.
Drum Room Cocktail Menu, Hotel Hayes, Jackson Michigan.
Printing Service Inc : Detroit, 1933.
Circular (190mm diameter) red and cream printed card two-disc volvelle with recipes for 27 classic cocktails. Card lightly soiled & age-toned.
¶ An attractive and unusually early post-Prohibition cocktail volvelle issued by the Hotel Hayes, Jackson, Michigan, featuring a selection of period cocktails including the Amber Dream¹, a variant omitting vermouth and possibly its earliest recorded appearance, together with the Side Car, Flying Scotsman, and the aptly named Depression Pick-up.
The Hotel Hayes was a grand ten-storey, 200-room hotel at 228 West Michigan Avenue, Jackson in the centre of Michigan. Opened in November 1926, it boasted a ballroom, dining room, dance hall, conference rooms, and the popular Drum Room bar and lounge. The hotel became a noted venue for touring big bands and musicians and was particularly popular as a G.I. gathering place during the Second World War.
An evocative piece of American drinking ephemera, combining practical cocktail instruction with the promotional culture of the hotel bar in the years immediately following the repeal of Prohibition.
Rare. An excellent and very early post-Prohibition² cocktail volvelle.
¹ Commonly thought to be first recorded in the 1935 BarKeeper’s Golden Book, by O. Blunier.
² Prohibition ended on 5 December 1933.
Item #10943
Price: $300.00 AUD