Category Archives: Wine & Champagne

The big star in Hollywood, Mississippi is the Imperial Levee

An absolute favorite bottle of mine is the ‘Imperial / Levee / J. Noyes / Hollywood / Miss.‘  figural wine or whiskey bottle. This bottle comes embossed with the typography noted above and un-embossed. The bottle was made somewhere between … Continue reading

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What did the Architect have in mind when Designing this Building?

Prohibition Champagne: Now the Hard Rock Hotel, the Carbide and Carbon Building was built during the Prohibition in Chicago by Daniel and Hubert Burnham to resemble a champagne bottle with a foil top. While most buildings in Chicago at the … Continue reading

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