Original 1935 wine, whiskey and spirits trade vintage ad for JOHN A WATHEN DISTILLERY COMPANY.  Main office was located at .

Manufacturers of Sour-Mash Kentucky Bourbon.  Here Is Where Quality is Born.

Here in sixteen great cypress mash tubs, ranging from sixteen to twenty-three thousand gallon capacity, quality, which has mad Wathen whiskies world famous, is guarded and controlled by one of this country's most experienced distillers. The mash is prepared in the slow, old fashioned, "sour-mash", mash-tub way. Wathen sacrifices many thousands of gallons every year to impart to its whiskies, in this way, the satisfying aroma and full-bodied flavor which sets it apart as a superior whiskey.

Unbound from a large 1935 post-prohibition trade magazine, this unique old one-page advertisement would display beautifully matted and framed. Nice graphics. A fabulous addition to your retro alcohol industry library. Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.