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Lucky 13 Bar, Market Street
In 1862 San Francisco there were over 1,000 places (about 70 per square mile) that you could buy a drink. Among those locations were 330 grocery saloons, grocery stores that had rear entrances for those looking for a drink, a simple meal, and maybe a deck of cards to pass the hours. Beer was the drink of choice, in the 1890s 48 gallons of beer per year were consumed for every San Francisco citizen – man, woman and child. There were 30 breweries in the city, employing over 800 workers. One perk of working at a San Francisco brewery was free beer while you labored. The Philadelphia Brewery estimated each one of its workers downed ten glasses per day, just the cost of doing business. One worker, Mike Nash, who put in 10 years at the Jackson Brewery, drank an astounding 7,300 gallons of free beer, about a barrel a day.
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