Swizzle Sticks From The Past

[Holly Moore]

Happened across the remnants of my father's collection of swizzle sticks. I'm guessing these are circa 1940's-1950's.

Inscriptions from left to right:

Wagon Wheel, Rockton IL

The Lacienega Red Snapper

?’s King Edward

PM Deluxe

Coach Beam Cincinatti Club

Hotel Statler

The Sheraton Lounge

Rockaway River Country Club

The Pacific Restaurant, 30 Pell Street, NYC

The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs

Hotel Webster Hall, Pittsburgh PA

The Kitty Hawk, Dayton Biltmore Hotel

The Canadian, Canadian Pacific (Railroad?)

Great Northern’s Western Star

The Engineer’s Club

Bachelor Club, Dallas TX

(No Printing)

Howard Johnson’s

[SylviaLovegren]

Particularly love the translucent amber one with the martini glass. Neat collection!

[Lisa Shock]

Thanks for sharing with us! My fave is the naturalistic twig.

[Smitty]

Posting to tag the topic.

My dad has a rather large collection of both matchbooks and swizzle sticks. I'll have to bring a camera next time I am over at his place.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Holly, the Canadian Pacific one is indeed from the CP Railroad's deluxe club cars, and the red ones were only used on the long haul trans-Canada rail voyages (shorter hops had white swizzlers). I have several of those myself, from my mother's collection.

[gfweb]

The red one on the right looks like a steak doneness marker rather than a swizzle stick. Haven't seen them in decades. When did they disappear?

[Holly Moore]

You're probably right about the steak doneness marker, now that I think about it. That makes more sense for Howard Johnson's.

[baroness]

I have a collection of glass sticks; will try to remember to photograph them.