1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

because of the potent dripped absinthe he served in the Parisian manner. His drink became so popular that it won fame not only for Cayetano, but for the balance of his family as well—papa, mamma, Uncle Leon, and three sons, Felix, Paul, and Jacinto, who helped to attend the wants of all and sundry who crowded the place. What the customers came for chiefly was the emerald liquor into which, tiny drop by tiny drop, fell water from the -brass faucets of the pair of fountains that decorated the long cypress bar. These old fountains, relics of a romantic past, remained in the Casa ]uncadella for many years. Came prohibition when the doors of "The Old Absinthe House" were padlocked by a United States mar shal, and the contents of the place went under the ham mer. Pierre Cazebonne purchased the prized antiques, together with the old bar, and set them up in another liquid refreshment parlor a block farther down Bourbon street, where signs now inform the tourist that therein is to be found the original "Old Absinthe Bar' and anti que fountains, and we find the marble bases pitted from the water which fell, drop by drop, from the faucets over the many years they served their glorious mission. In these modern years the tourist yearning for an old flavor of the Old New Orleans to carry back as a memory of his visit, goes to 400 Bourbon street, not only to see the venerable fountains and bar, but to be served absinthe frappe by a son of Cayetano Ferrer, the Spaniard who established "The Old Absinthe House." Jacinto Ferrer (we who know him call him "Josh") should indeed know how to prepare the drink properly for he has been at it 65 years. Josh served his apprenticeship in his father's celebrated "Absinthe Room" in W2, and today at three-score-years-and-ten, carries on with an air the profession at which he began his apprenticeship as a five- year-old boy. Thirty-six