Mexicali Beer Hall

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Mexicali Beer Hall was a large beer bar in the Mexican city of Tijuana . With a length of about 50 to 60 meters, it took up an entire block on Avenida Revolución . The place was also known in Mexico as La Ballena (The Whale ) and is described on old postcards as the largest bar in the world at the time. The beer brand Mexicali was served , which at that time was the only beer brand brewed in Baja California and from which the bar got its name.

history

The Mexicali Beer Hall was probably built as a result of Prohibition in the United States or at least benefited from it. It was located on Avenida Revolución, on which in the 1920s and 1930s - i.e. at the time of Prohibition, which lasted from 1919 to 1933 - there were a number of restaurants that offered beer and schnapps at low prices, and thus a large number attracted by tourists from the USA .

Possibly due to the end of Prohibition, the sales of the beer bars also fell and some of them closed. The Mexicali Beer Hall was also finally closed and replaced by a Woolworth branch, which no longer exists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.worldviewcities.org/tijuana/illicit.html
  2. ↑ Postcard with lettering "The Longest Bar in the World"
  3. ↑ Photo of the former Woolworth branch on Avenida Revolución in Tijuana

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