![]() ![]() London spent his teens in Oakland saloons, among them the legendary Johnny Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, the St. Today it reads, at least in part, like a love letter to the old-time saloon. His alcoholic memoir, John Barleycorn, prompted sermons in pulpits, denunciations from liquor companies and eulogies from the temperance movement, and helped tip America towards Prohibition. ![]() ![]() Gold prospector, oyster poacher, rancher, amateur boxer, political activist and, most of all, writer, Jack London made his name with rugged tales of life on the American frontier. 100 years after his alcoholic memoir-cum-temperance tract, John Barleycorn, was published, we profile an all-round alpha male who helped tip America towards Prohibition. ![]()
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