Kentucky Club
Club Kentucky , sometimes referred to as the Kentucky Club or Kentucky Bar , is a traditional and mythical eatery in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez that opened in October 1920.
location
The restaurant is only about 600 meters south of the border with the USA and is located on calle Juárez , which leads from the south in a northerly direction directly to the Paseo del Norte border bridge and continues behind this in El Paso (Texas) under the name El Paso Street takes.
History and myth
The bar claims that the world-famous Margarita cocktail was mixed here for the first time . But there are even different versions of the local origin of the drink. One says that at the time of Prohibition a woman was sitting at the bar and ordered an extraordinary drink. The barman then mixed this drink for her. When the woman asked the name of the drink, the barman asked her name and called the cocktail “Margarita” in her honor. According to another version, Lorenzo Hernández, who is said to have worked as a barman at the Kentucky Club for around half a century, developed the drink for a couple who were regular customers of the place. Accordingly, the husband asked the barman to serve a new drink for his wife and to name it after her.
Well-known visitors to the bar allegedly included Marilyn Monroe , Frank Sinatra , Bob Dylan and Steve McQueen , who died in Juarez in 1980. Other well-known visitors were Elizabeth Taylor , Jim Morrison and John Wayne as well as Ronald Reagan (as an actor). A visit by Al Capone is controversial.
Over the decades, the Kentucky is said to have been visited by a number of Mexican movie stars and boxers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karina Moreno (Borderzine): El bar más antiguo de Ciudad Juárez inventó la margarita y la sigue sirviendo (Spanish; article from March 21, 2014)
- ↑ a b México: bar donde bebieron Al Capone y Marilyn Monroe sobrevive a violencia (Spanish; article from June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Craig Zabransky (Stay Adventurous): Safely Drinking a Margarita in its Birthplace-Juarez, Mexico (English; article from March 29, 2013)
- ↑ Everything begins and ends in the Kentucky Club ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Book Review; accessed November 1, 2015)
- ↑ Mandalit del Barco (NPR): The Violence Subsides, And Revelers Return To Juarez (English; article from June 13, 2015)
