It was a yawning gap in my story about gay Hamilton of
the 1970s and 1980s and the wine bar at the corner of Beaumont and Donald
Street.
I wrote in that post about the O’Beirne Grocery, established
around 1915 at 34-36 Beaumont Street. Already
selling bottled wine, it became a ‘wine saloon’ in 1926. Remodelled in 1970 by
new licensee Bernard Sarroff, the ownership of what had been Bernie’s Bar changed
again around 1974.
