Reuters: World's 10 most legendary bars

[HUGE AL]

Actually, I don't think that's a half bad idea, milehighj.

[milehighj]

Well if VirtualTourist.com can pull this off...

We should come up with an SQTalk "Good, Bad and Ugly" list, do a press release and see if the mass newswires will pick it up. (We do seem to have an occasional poster here who finds us some interesting news articles from time to time... )

[HUGE AL]

Isn't that a contradiction ?

read: Ditch the White Horse Tavern (in most USA cities, that's the strip club ).

[jhm]

history in America

Isn't that a contradiction ?

[jhm]

I've never heard of the Blind Beggar in London but its only distinctions seem to be that it's where the Salvation Army was founded and also where an unlucky victim of the Kray twin gangsters was shot.

And as for the Eagle and Child in Oxford - meeting place of C S Lewis and others - I suggest that the Eagle pub in the other place has just as much a claim to fame, e.g. where Crick and Watson announced their discovery of the secret of life!

Just another random list without much thought IMHO!

[HUGE AL]

I've got HUGE problems with White Horse Tavern (WHATEVER), First and Last Chance Bar (Oaktown???), and Fink's (come on, Israel?!). I mean, what about the King Cole Bar in the original St. Regis??? The home to the Bloody Mary and some of the richest history in America just before the Titanic??? MORONS!

[milehighj]

From the "members and editors of VirtualTourist.com", apparently...

World's 10 most legendary bars

Bars, pubs, and taverns of the world can hold as much history as any museum and present as much drama as any theatre. -Reuters

Sat, Jun 27, 2009
Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Bars, pubs, and taverns of the world can hold as much history as any museum and present as much drama as any theater.

Members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have come up with a list of the world's 10 most legendary bars. This list is not endorsed by Reuters.

"Generally speaking, bars aren't the first stop on most tourists' lists of places to see, but when you learn about the people they inspired and the events for which they were the backdrop, they become incredibly culturally significant," said VirtualTourist.com's General manager Giampiero Ambrosi.

1. Harry's Bar; Venice, Italy
2. The Blind Beggar; London, England
3. White Horse Tavern; New York City, New York
4. Garota de Ipanema; Rio de Janerio, Brazil
5. The Pub; Valletta, Malta
6. Heinolds' First and Last Chance Bar; Oakland, California
7. Long Bar; Raffles Hotel, Singapore
8. The Eagle and Child; Oxford, England
9. Bell-in-Hand Tavern; Boston, Massachusetts
10. Fink's; Jerusalem, Israel

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