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High life

The King of Clubs

24 September 2016

9:00 AM

24 September 2016

9:00 AM

Unless you are a monk in Mount Athos, or a Tibetan holy man, El Morocco rings a bell as one of the greatest gin joints there has ever been. Elmo’s, as it was known among the cognoscenti, had its heyday during the -Forties and Fifties, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan near Third Avenue.

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