Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins highlights the colorful and fun cocktail napkins from California’s famous restaurants, hidden dives, and most beloved bars.
2022 SILVER Winner for Popular Culture, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins is a fun and fabulous tour through the cocktail napkins of the golden state. Hundreds of images of vintage cocktail napkins will surprise and delight anyone who is a fan of cocktail culture, roadside diners, hidden dives, tiki bars, and more. Collector Patrick Quinn highlights some of the most unique and interesting napkins he’s brought together over years of enthusiastic searching. Bar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins is the perfect book for any coffee table or bar top in town!
A long-time Angelino, Patrick Quinn works as a production designer at Universal Studios, Hollywood. He and his wife spend most weekends going to swap meets and antique malls, searching for hidden treasures. This allows him to indulge in an ever-growing collection of vintage odds & ends including exotica records, ’70's snapshots, Western-Union telegrams, early travel guidebooks, and, of course, cocktail napkins.