Tak
----- Al ------ Ong ----- Whiskey
Here's
a San Francisco flask with a fun play on words.
It's a label only tooled top flask. It measures 6 1/16" tall, has a tooled long tapered collar over single ring cork
closure, and is a "half pint".
Sold
by A. A. Bulotti who was located at the corner of 6th Ave. and California St.
(in the northwest part of SF). Attached is a photo of the building today. It's a tasteful Victorian now housing a liquor store (how fortuitous...).
Only problem is... the SF City directories never listed an A. A. Bulotti as being in
either the wholesale or retail liquor business. What they do show is an A. A.
Bulotti as being a grocer around the TOC, located at the address on the label.
Odds
are, he bottled substandard whiskey from hogsheads, that he bought on the cheap
from one of the big dogs, and bottled it in the back room.
I
can see it now; Bulotti is offering a free flask of it (on the QT) to any husband who persuaded the Misses to shop at his store.
Tak ----- Al ------ Ong ----- Whiskey
Here's a San Francisco flask with a fun play on words.
It's a label only tooled top flask. It measures 6 1/16" tall, has a tooled long tapered collar over single ring cork closure, and is a "half pint".
Sold by A. A. Bulotti who was located at the corner of 6th Ave. and California St. (in the northwest part of SF). Attached is a photo of the building today. It's a tasteful Victorian now housing a liquor store (how fortuitous...).
Only problem is... the SF City directories never listed an A. A. Bulotti as being in
either the wholesale or retail liquor business. What they do show is an A. A.
Bulotti as being a grocer around the TOC, located at the address on the label.
Odds are, he bottled substandard whiskey from hogsheads, that he bought on the cheap from one of the big dogs, and bottled it in the back room.
I can see it now; Bulotti is offering a free flask of it (on the QT) to any husband who persuaded the Misses to shop at his store.
