RARE Collectible Whiskey Glasses from TOOTS SHOR legendary New York City Saloon

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RARE Collectible Whiskey Glasses from TOOTS SHOR legendary New York City Saloon:
$36.00

Offered here are 2 (two) original 10-ounce whiskey glasses from Toots Shor\'s saloon (with the Toots Shor logo). .Provenance:
After the tax authorities closed his 52nd Street saloon, Toots sold the rights to his name and presence to a new chain of Toots Shor restaurants operated by the Riese brothers. When he died on January 23, 1977, there were four such Toots Shor restaurants (incluuding one across from Madison Square Garden) in Manhattan, none of them his. These glasses were obtained at sale after the closings of these locations. From the introduction to \"Saloonkeeper\":
It was a mythological New York, a place before Times Square was taken over by Disney, a smoke-filled era in which men were men and women were dames, a period when getting properly inebriated was a sign of character and top shelf was the elixir of life. Between World War II and the end of the Eisenhower era, Manhattan’s place to be and to be seen was Toots Shor’s, and for those who were part of the inner circle – pals one and all – it sure was fun while it lasted. Only Toots Shor’s was Toots Shor’s, and only Toots Shor’s had Toots Shor. This stout, gregarious palooka reigned over his men’s club and served up food and strong drink with a heaping side of insults and put-downs. More than a host, he was a lord. And the eponymous saloon was his personal fiefdom. He drank with five presidents, golfed with royalty, and became the toast of the town. They don’t make them like Toots anymore. His gin joint exerted, early on, an almost tidal pull on athletes, writers, radio men, fight promoters, bookies, not to mention actors, pols and Broadway brokers. Like survivors clinging to the same life raft, they became inseparable, hanging out with boldface names including Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Jack Dempsey, Frank Gifford, Walter Cronkite, Yogi Berra, Mike Wallace, Edward R. Murrow, Earl Warren, Frank Costello, Jimmy Hoffa, you name it – for the price of a drink, anyone was welcome to belly up to the circular bar. Shor’s became the mother lodge for assembling after the big prize fights, baseball, basketball and hockey games. There athletes and fans argued and reminisced until the early hours of the morning. It all had to end, of course. And it did. The tides shifted. The culture changed.