Who or what is Walsh?

A Little Brief History

Great cocktails go hand in hand with great stories, there are legends about the creation of the Sazerac, the Ramos Gin Fizz, even the Manhattan. But where’s the celebrated origin story of that iconic American pre-dinner drinking hour, the cocktail party?  

Although it has been said that the inventor of the cocktail party was Alec Waugh of London, an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in May 1917 credited its invention to Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Walsh invited 50 guests to her house on a Sunday at high noon for a one-hour affair. "The party scored an instant hit," the newspaper declared, stating that within weeks cocktail parties had become "a St. Louis institution".

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"Over the years, I must, I suppose, have entertained thousands of people in the seventh-floor apartment where I live among my china dolls, hunting prints, overstuffed furniture, and photographs of friends. When in residence my door is open to friends from five in the afternoon on (a circumstance that inspired somebody to describe me not long ago as the last of the salonkeepers)"

- Clara Walsh, 1957

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