John O'Hare was granted a liquor license in Shelton in May 1894. He then purchased the Capital Saloon located at 307 South F St. in Aberdeen in 1898 where he was the local distributor for "Jesse Moore" whiskey. He was granted a liquor license to operate John O'Hare Wholesale Liquors in 1901. The majority of Aberdeen's business district was destroyed by fire on October 3rd 1903, thus he operated the saloon in the back of the burned out wooden building for a time. He had a brick building constructed at Heron and F Sts. which opened in July 1904 and was located around the block from the original establishment. O'Hare became a Republican councilman in 1908 and continued in that role while still owning O'Hare Wholesale Liquors until it was closed by prohibition. Once prohibition was enacted, he and his family moved to Butte Montana.
Germano Bertoldi and Stefano Raggio opened a saloon in Seattle located at 221 Washington St. in 1899. They divested the business sometime in 1901 when Raggio opened his own saloon at 167 Washington St. Bertoldi opened a saloon in 1903 south of Seattle in Georgetown and subsequently opened another in 1904 at 1100 Western Ave. In 1903 Bertoldi had a building constructed in Georgetown (which still stands) that held a lodge and dance hall. His wife Angela died in Georgetown in 1903 and he continued operating the saloon on Western after her death until sometime in 1905. He was granted a liquor license to operate the Georgetown Liquor Co. in 1906 and he then ran as a Republican for the City Council representing Georgetown in 1907 and continued running the Georgetown saloon. He was arrested on 11/18/1909 for allowing a minor (his son Peter) to work in the Georgetown Liquor Co. which Bertoldi owned - he was still a city councilman at the time. By 1910 the Georgetown location (with various adresses listed due to Seattle re-mapping at the time) was operated by his brother Leo until prohibition came in 1915.
The Kentucky Liquor Company opened in 1902 in the Kentucky Building at 1130 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma and was also know as the Kentucky Liquor House. Peter Sandberg was president from 1902 to 1907; Fred Palmer took over in 1908 and J. C. Day was president in 1909. The company moved to 102 South 14th in 1910, operated by Morris Isaacs and remained there until closed due to prohibition in 1915.
Julius Siegel came to Seattle in 1904 and operated a clothing store located at Occidental and Washington in the heart of the retail district. Later he went into the wholesale liquor business with his wife's two brothers, Mike (Meyer) and Kassel Gottstein. Siegel operated a liquor store and bar at 1509 1st Ave and ran it until prohibition came into effect in 1915. He returned to the clothing business in Seattle after prohibition and later moved to Los Angeles in 1933 where he died of heart failure at the age of 57.
E. D. Ward and J. F. Klein opened "The Orient Bar" at 1511 Hewitt Ave. in Everett in 1909. They remained in business together until 1911 when Klein branched off on his own to operate "Jakes Place" a liquor house at 1819 Hewitt Ave. He remained there (more than likely changing the name to "Klein's Family Liquor Store" in 1913) as well as opening Klein Distributing in Snohomish at the corner of First and D st.in 1911 and in Everett at the corner of Hewitt and Oakes (1819 Hewitt Ave.) in 1913. He operated both businesses until prohibition in 1915.
The Atlas Liquor Company and Atlas Buffet were owned by the Hyman Brothers and located in the Old Post Office building located at 1217 1st Ave. in Seattle in 1908. The brothers owned additional liquor establishments at 2230 1st Ave and 522 1st Ave S. The California Liquor House, owned by the Hyman Brothers was located at 2234 1st Ave in 1907 and that location became the Atlas Liquor Co in 1915. The company's motto was "Always a little more than your money's worth".
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