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What Does the Future Hold for Downtown LA as a Cocktail Destination?

VinePair

He followed up in 2010 by purchasing Broadway landmark Clifton’s Cafeteria, turning the space that famously inspired Disneyland into an ambitious multi-floor nightlife destination. “It One of the major tasks for Bastian at the downtown BID was attracting outside investment in the neighborhood by overcoming its bad optics.

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The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel His Whiskey Secrets

The Whiskey Wash

Standing today as a multi billion dollar global powerhouse, Jack Daniel’s owes much of its foundational expertise to Green, who not only mentored the young Jasper ‘Jack’ Daniel but went on to become the first documented African American master distiller in United States history.

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