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The Pendennis Club, Home of the Old Fashioned?
Louisville’s oldest private club has spent a century getting credit for a cocktail it almost certainly didn’t invent, and the real story turns out to be better than the legend.
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The Pendennis Club
The real, stranger history behind the club, its clubhouse, and the drink it never actually invented.
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The Old Fashioned
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