Museum of the American Cocktail exhibit in New Orleans

This amazing show has been open for a while, but I just got the J-pegs of the case with my collection pieces that I lent to Ted Haigh:

Here's an article about it:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002192138_cocktail28.html

(The Tiki on the left in the 2nd j-peg is "Kona", the bad luck Tiki from the 1964 Gilligan's Island episode "Waiting for Watubi".)

PS: Frig!, WHY the red X-es? Somebody fix, please!

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-03-19 13:27 ]

Does anyone know... is this exhibit still in place? The thread is pre-Katrina and Rita, so thought I'd better check before venturing forth.

cheers,
Rupe

It's now at Commander's Palace in Vegas.

The American cocktail museum is back once again in New Orleans, at a new location - and with tiki cups! The following are excerpts from an article on the re-opening.

*The Museum of the American Cocktail officially reopens Monday at 10:30 a.m. in a clubby gallery inside the new Southern Food and Beverage Museum at Riverwalk Marketplace, just inside the Julia Street entrance.

"We really are excited, and I think it's a very rich, deep exhibit," said SoFAB president Liz Williams. "People will very much enjoy it."

The Museum of the American Cocktail opened originally on the second floor of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum in 2005, nine months before Hurricane Katrina. Board members removed the exhibit after the storm, and Ti Martin invited the museum to open at the Commander's Palace Las Vegas in the Aladdin Resort & Casino. There it was on display for nine months, until the hotel was sold.

SoFAB opened in Riverwalk Marketplace last month, at the end of the food court. Now, the nonprofit cocktail museum is back to stay. For the past couple of months, the curator, drinks historian Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh, has been installing alcoholic beverage history in a timeline, with artifacts such as a 3,000-year-old Chinese wine cup; a tantalus, a decorative locking cage that held decanters and tantalized servants in the George Washington era; a collection of tiki cups; menus, cocktail-related music; first editions of the very first drinks book; artifacts from Prohibition, and much, much more.*

Full article is here

http://blog.nola.com/judywalker/2008/07/museum_of_the_american_cocktai.html

I was just at the new museum Sunday, and it is fantastic. Ted has put together an amazing array of vintage cocktail ephemera that will knock you out. There are also two cases dedicated to tiki (which is a lot considering the one room size of the museum.) One case is about Don and Vic, the other is a collection of mugs. I helped Ted put the right captions next to each tiki mug when I was there, so if there are mistakenly identified ones, the fault is mine, not Ted's!