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The hotel has gained notoriety for its Sourtoe cocktail. The Sourtoe cocktail began during Prohibition with a case of frostbite. In the 1920s, two outlaw brothers, Louie and Otto, were caught in a blizzard. Louie soaked his foot, and when the brothers got back to their cabin, Louie's foot was frostbitten with his right toe becoming gangrenous.
The toe was preserved in alcohol and forgotten until its rediscovery by Captain Dick Stevenson in 1973 who devised a Sourtoe Cocktail Club whose members had imbibed a cocktail containing the toe. The toe was used in the 'Sourtoe cocktail' at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. [93] At some point, the original toe was replaced.
Berton House was the childhood home of popular-history writer Berton. The program is now administered by the Writers' Trust of Canada. Berton narrated the 1957 film City of Gold which describes the excitement of Dawson City during the gold rush. He also wrote the book Klondike, an historical account of the gold rush to the Klondike in 1896–1899.
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The Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and a Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe ... and Everything Else (2011), Globe Pequot Press (ISBN 978-0762771561) [16] The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town (2008), St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0312948468).
Harry Craddock (29 August 1876 [1] – 25 January 1963 [2]) was an English bartender who became one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for his tenure at the Savoy Hotel in London, and for his 1930 book, The Savoy Cocktail Book.
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