The Collection (part two)

Like the straight swizzle, the spoon swizzle mostly puts function over branding. These are from Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn (Las Vegas), The Eliot Lounge (unofficial finish line of the Boston Marathon), and the Darbury Room (Boston).

These spoon swizzles come from the Blue Meadows (New London, Conn), "New York's Newest Hotel" Edison (it opened in 1931, which makes me wonder if this was from my grandparent's collection!), and the Frolic Room (Revere Beach, Boston).

These United Airlines examples are really more of a garnish spear than a swizzle, but we'll include them anyway along with two different eras of American Airlines, and a Delta.

Going to Hawaii is special enough (and a long enough flight to require multiple drinks) that Continental made special swizzles just for that route.

The TWA propeller has to be one of the greatest swizzle sticks ever produced. I'm pretty fond about the small swizzle with the old TWA logo too, as it's perfect for a rocks glass. Western Airlines has a nice translucent swizzle that can also spear your olive, or your pearl onion, or your maraschino cherry.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... except the swizzle sticks, you can take those with you. Here we have the Sahara, a Flamingo (with the head broken off!), and John Ascuaga's Nugget (from Reno, where the whole family went to see Rowan & Martin live in 1975).

A mystery set here... Some familiar logos on the red-orange flower, the interlocking HH, and the silver, but I can't place any of them yet. The large item I don't think is a souvenir, but just a good bar tool swizzle.

These guys were probably part of a gift set to my folks, not a travel or bar souvenir. When we were kids, there were a few more of them, and they all still had their multi-colored eyes.

A bar set of garnish spears, for your olives, maraschino cherries, or pearl onions. Because a real cocktail isn't ready until it has some garnish. I don't know what this design was trying to be, but as kids they made great swords for GI Joe & Batman to battle it out.

What? You don't want an olive or a pearl onion? You want a wedge of citrus fruit? We've got you covered. We've got garnish spears for whatever you like.

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