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27th May
2010
San Diego’s downtown of the late 1800s was filled with bars. Perhaps the best known “saloonist” was the colorful Tillman A.  Burnes, who kept a well-stocked menagerie of exotic animals to accompany his liquor selections.  Read more about Till Burnes.