As a, I hope, digression rather than a hijack, private homes during the period mentioned in the OP seemed to have full bars more often than they do today. My parents lived in a couple of homes built between 1940 and 1970 and both had separate bar areas with a sink for washing glasses and storage for liquor and supplies. One home also had a built-in liquor cabinet with a lock. A lot of people we knew when I was growing up also had installed bars in their basement lounge areas. I don’t think you see that much anymore, except in vacation time shares and so forth that are intended for entertaining.
You might still see them today, except that the trend over the past few decades has been towards wine drinking and away from booze. In a way it’s too bad because the living-room bar setup could help put strangers at their ease. “I’ll be out in a minute, help yourself to a drink and make yourself at home” was a social invitation to be comfortable and at one’s ease. And all the needed ingredients for whatever the guest wanted to drink, within reason, would be present.
According to Paul Fussell, separate dedicated bar areas were common houses belonging to the upper middle classes and higher, while middle class and lower folks tended to keep their booze in a kitchen cupboard.
I was going somewhere with this, wasn’t I? What was my point? Ah yes, that especially by watching old movies one might get the idea that this practice was even more common than cher’s anecdote indicates, because film producers have usually favored upper-middle-class, or higher, settings.
A few years ago, the bank I was working for at the time bought a new building. At the grand opening party, we got to tour the board room and CEO’s office and there was a bar in there. There was also a bathroom, an enormous TV that rose up out of the floor, a small gym, several couches . . . I’m thinking the bar had to have just been to accent the extravagance of the place as the CEO was a known recovering alcoholic who hadn’t had a drink for years.
At my current company, there are no rules I’ve been able to find anywhere that expressly forbid lunchtime drinking, but all of my co-workers assume that we aren’t allowed to so I don’t do it either.
I would be very interested in seeing the business plan.
I’d have thought it would be easy for a salesman to stage-drink - slosh the glass around, use it to gesture, then leave the room. And as their job is to keep talking, it’s doubly easy.
Let’s just say, it wasn’t a typo. If you want to be a successful consultant, you’d better be prepared to do anything the client wants. If they want anal, they get anal. Thankfully, I was never involved in the business end of the company. I’m just a shooter.
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Oh sure, but where’s the fun in that?
I don’t believe they were holding their noses and forving it down, it’s just that they wound up doing a lot of drinking, both at their clients’ offices and in bars and restaurants. An acqaintance of mine (from my old neighborhood bar, of course) was in B2B, industrial sales starting in the mid-70s. He used to drink aggressively, to show the prospect that he could hack it.
We had a security checkpoint at the last place I worked, and before Christmas last year, when I had bought two bottles of wine as presents for my boss and co-worker, security wouldn’t even let me in the building with them. I had to walk them back out to my car, and have them follow me down to claim them at the end of the day. No alcohol was ever allowed on the premises whatsoever, no exceptions – and no glass bottles of anything, even non-alcoholic.
That’s absolutely fantastic. Can such a thing still be gotten? I would love to have that as an addition to my drinking curios, and I promise I would NEVER take it to the office… 
I know that my both my father and my stepfather have mentioned that alcohol consumption was a way of life in business in the 60’s and 70’s. You were expected to go and get 'faced with all of your customers all the time, your boss was usually at least a pint a day man all by himself, and at least in my stepdad’s version of things, this is where we get expense accounts from.
I always assumed it was made by some advertising place; you know, the kind that can sell you a thousand letter-openers with your business’s name on it. I just examined one of them, and there’s nothing on it to indicate the maker.
I’m going to make a note of this thread and your address, and when I get around to posting a pic someplace, I’ll get back to you.