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Wild About Harry’s
Toasting a legendary Paris bar on its 100th birthday
In 1911, with Prohibition on the horizon, a jockey named Tod Sloan convinced a friend wh
owned a struggling bar inManha an to ship the whole thing to Paris and reopen it as
the New York Bar. The pair then hired Sco ish bartender HarryMacElhone, who proved
so popular that patrons began calling the establishment Harry’s Bar. MacElhone made it
official by buying the joint in 1923, and subsequently saw it become
the
place for America
expats in the Roaring ’20s. The story of Harry’s—which is still going strong—is richly
chronicled in Isabelle MacElhone’s new book,
Harry’s Bar
, which draws upon her family’s
photos and anecdotes to pay tribute to this most hallowed of watering holes.
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