1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

it came into being in a community noted for the orderliness of its thoughts and its fastidious devotion to history, perhaps because of the circumstance that it first saw the light of day in premises particularly favored by newspaper men and other literati, we know where and approximately when theWard Eight first leaped at the throat of an astonished world. Locke-Ober's Winter Place Wine Rooms, a venerable Boston institution and still to this day the town's foremost restaurant, tap– room and resort of masculinity, was located in the eighties as it is today in Winter Place, a short news running between Temple Place and Winter Street or, if you prefer, between the Five Cent Savings Bank and Stowell the jeweler. But a stone's throw from the Massa– chusetts State House on Beacon Hill and famed for its lobster Savannah and planked steaks, it was-natural that Locke's should be a resort of politicians and followers of the political scene. Locke's was not and is not in Boston'sWard Eight, but in the period under consideration Ward Eight was a dominant political sub– division of the community and it was natural that a new drink should be christened for this powerful arrondissement. Although the fame of the Ward Eight was carried afar, it remained and is to this day a particular favorite in Boston and, if the thirsty enquirer is in the vicinity of Brimstone Corner, he can conveniently drop by Locke's, admire the oldest cash register in North America, the Tom and Jerry machine, the splendid barroom nude, and have a Ward Eight in the scene of its origin and first fame.

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Ward Eight:

2 oz. rye juice of half lemon 4 dashes grenadine

Shake and serve in tall glass with cracked ice, fruit.

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