I had a chance to do some urban exploring a few weeks ago, inside the old Myron’s location on Kent Street, which has been closed for some time. It was a fascinating ramble in a building that’s held together remarkably well.

One of the more interesting artifacts of the past I came I across was the remnants of an incredibly complex digital liquor control system from Azbar (this video, which looks like it was shot in 1979, is a great overview of this technology).

I took a photo of the control panel of the Azbar system, which had all of Myron’s drinks programmed into it:

Here are the drinks that are listed on the buttons; it’s a veritable liquor time machine, and also a useful reminder that the history of nightclub alcohol and sexism was, at least back in the day, alive and well.

• Yellow Buttons
  • 747
  • After Eight
  • Alabama Slammer
  • B-52
  • Blow Job
  • Brain Hemorage
  • Coconut Babs (maybe this is wrong?)
  • Mevain Shoe (maybe this is wrong?)
  • Mexican Missel
  • Nightmare
  • Orgasm
  • Pepers
  • Prairie Fire
  • Prick-leg
  • Sex on the Beach
  • Silver Tread
  • Slipped Nipple
  • Test Tube
• Orange Buttons
  • Black Russian
  • Bloody Caesar
  • Long Island Ice Tea
  • Paralyser
  • Rum Paralyser
  • Sling!
  • White Russian
  • Coma
  • Horney Monkeyy
• Blue Buttons
  • Drink Special (x3)
• Purple Buttons
  • Staff Rum
  • Staff Gin
  • Unreadable (x3)

If I’ve transcribed any of these inaccurately (here’s a larger version of the image, if you want to zoom right in), please let me know (as far as I can recall, outside of a mistaken Long Island Ice Tea ordered at a restaurant in Espanola, Ontario in 1990, I’ve never ordered a mixed drink, so I’m not an expert; I also never went to Myron’s, other than to see Annekenstein).