So this was a different time.
Female patrons who have been to the bar say they would never go back.
While certain stories do place its start with American oil workers, they probably weren't drinking them here in America with any degree of regularity, and definitely not during the 1920s, which, you know, happened to be Prohibition.
Two years later Benari was involved in a near-fatal car accident and was unable to personally supervise the bar while he recovered.