Download e-book for iPad: Over P. J. Clarke's Bar: Tales from New York City's Famous by Helen Marie Clarke

How did a bar like P. J. Clarke’s saloon turn into the cherished watering gap for Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Rocky Marciano, and blood brother Holly (not to say the fictitious Don Draper)? And what used to be it approximately their bacon cheeseburger that triggered Nat King Cole to pronounce it “the Cadillac of burgers”?   

Established  in 1884 and purchased in l904 by way of Patrick “Paddy” Joseph Clarke, this Irish saloon in a stunning Victorian construction at the nook of 3rd street and Fifty-Fifth highway has captivated generations of recent Yorkers—from the operating type to entertainers, athletes, company executives, and contributors of excessive society. the following, ultimately, is the tale of this famed saloon.   study extra concerning the bar the place:  

• Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman introduced their coming near near nuptials to an astonished crowd  

• Johnny Mercer penned “One for My child (and yet one more for the Road)” on a serviette whereas sitting on the bar  

• Frank Sinatra used to be the “owner” of desk twenty  

Over P. J. Clarke’s Bar is immediately a nostalgic glance again at certainly one of long island City’s most renowned landmark saloons (in an age once they are speedy disappearing) and an eloquent memoir through the previous owner’s grandniece, which info in sharp aid the thrill of days long gone by—when as a tender lady she entered throughout the “ladies” front and watched bartenders handing buckets of beer to thirsty shoppers at the sidewalk throughout the “to move” window.