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Dec 17, 2021, 8:40 am

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Originally Posted by FlyerBeek

Curious if they moved the whiskey collection over to the new location? That was a piece of history at the old LGA AC - which I believe was the world’s first airline club when it opened in the 1930s.

From the article above:
"Liquor laws back in 1939 didn’t allow American to sell liquor, so the airline’s president at the time, C.R. Smith, kept a private whiskey collection at the club. That collection is still around, and it will move to the new club when it opens."

I guess for all the times I've used the AC at LGA I hadn't noticed or paid attention to the whiskey collection...

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