The Barman of Binghamton

The Life of Binghamton Bar Owner, Author and Sport, Jacob A. Didier.

Bartender and author Jacob A. Didier, circa 1909.

One of the interesting aspects of the first Golden Age of cocktails in the United States (roughly the 1860s until the advent of Prohibition in 1920) is that it reached not only major cities like New York and San Francisco, but smaller markets as well. Proof of this is in the wide geographical variety of c…