Pittsburgh Drinks: A History of Cocktails, Nightlife & Bartending Tradition

by Sean Enright and Cody McDevitt

Book Overview

Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails. In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust caf culture along Diamond Street. Disco clubs gripped the city in the 1970s, and a music-centered nightlife began to grow in Oakland with such clubs as the Electric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467137782
• ISBN13: 9781467137782
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"