William "Cocktail" Boothby

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Based on copyright registration for his 1907/1908 edition of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, he was a resident of or had an office in Mountain View, California in 1907.

According to the introduction of the post-earthquake edition, the 1906 "Great Quake" destroyed the plates for his earlier version of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them.

Boothby's place in the growth of the cocktail is significant; his first bar manual in 1891 contained 20 cocktail recipes among the drinks; the 1934 book under his name contains 172 pages of them.Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]

Career

*Minstrel performer.Bonné, Jon. "Sipping News: A Toast To Our Spirited History", San Francisco Chronicle December 14 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/WILQTS7RT.DTL] ]
*Bartender in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Kansas City.Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]
*Bartender at Byron Hot Springs.Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ] Jensen, Carol A. "East Contra Costa County", 2007. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2GTf3-n_a1QC&pg=RA1-PA100&dq=william+cocktail+boothby&sig=U-jodgMTa-JvmlNBCKAgWcAutTo] ] Jensen, Carol A. "Byron Hot Springs", 2006. Page 72.]
*Bartender (or in his terms "presiding deity") at Hotel Rafael, San Rafael, California, in "the gay days when Baron von Schroeder was making history over there".Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]
*Bartender at the Silver Palace, San FranciscoUnknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]
*Bartender at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ] Bonné, Jon. "Sipping News: A Toast To Our Spirited History", San Francisco Chronicle December 14 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/WILQTS7RT.DTL] ]
*Saloon owner.Bonné, Jon. "Sipping News: A Toast To Our Spirited History", San Francisco Chronicle December 14 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/WILQTS7RT.DTL] ]
*Assemblyman in CaliforniaBonné, Jon. "Sipping News: A Toast To Our Spirited History", San Francisco Chronicle December 14 2007 [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/WILQTS7RT.DTL] ] in 1895. The 1908 edition of The World's Drinks & How To Mix Them begins "To the liquor dealers of San Francisco who unanimously assisted in my election to the Legislature by an unprecedented majority."Unknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]
*Soda drink counter supervisor, Olympic Club, during ProhibitionUnknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ]

Bibliography

# "Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender" (1891) (as William T. Boothby) This book was described in 1934 as "a scarce item for collectors" and went through three editions (1891, 1900, 1900Burton, John. "Hon. William T. "Cocktail Bill" Boothby: Premier Mixologist" [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbgnewsletter/usbg_news_date_p5.shtml] ] ), selling 50,000 copiesUnknown. The Recorder (San Francisco business newspaper) December 6 1934. Quoted by Brian Rea and Bartender's School of Santa Rosa [http://www.bartenderschoolofsantarosa.com/usbg.shtml] ] .
# "The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them" (1908) (as Hon. Wm. T. Boothby)Boothby, William "Cocktail". "The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them", 1908. Contents photographed at San Francisco Public Library Historical Materials Collection [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinah/sets/72157603645295415/] on December 28, 2007.]
# "Cocktail Bill Boothby's World Drinks And How To Mix Them" (1930) (as Hon. Wm. T. Boothby)
# "Swallows" (1930)
# "Cocktail Bill Boothby's World Drinks And How To Mix Them" (1934) (as Hon. Wm. T. Boothby)

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