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That first Golden Wedding has a label on it assuring the consumer that no industrial/denatured/poisoned alcohol was added to it.

Some Prohibition-era whiskey bottles and a liquor prescription stub from the Museum of the American Gangster in NYC. There is such a place and now I've been there. It's... interesting. The interpretation, from a museum-person standpoint is not great. There are huge walls of text next to printed pictures but amongst all that, there are some amazing artifacts. A period still, lots of old liquor bottles, two safes from a speakeasy, Dillinger death masks, a children's cops and bootleggers chase set and more. There's a tour that hits all the highlights and gives some information not on the walls of text. Better? It's on the site of a former speak easy and the panic room is still intact downstairs. It mostly covers Prohibition-era stuff but there is some pre-history and it also looks like there's some intention to expand to more modern organized crime.

There are more pictures from my recent, very cold, whirlwind trip to New York up here.