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Show jNOTED DRINK MIXER MAINTAINS ACTIVITY j BAM PRAJVClflCO, Feb. 16. Duncan Dun-can Nleol. for balf of a century owner of the obi Bank Exchange saloon here, known probably everywhere for Its i i Pisco punches, la not living on mem-lories mem-lories of before-prohlbUlon days. At !?0 years of age he hsa started a course at the automotive school of the Young Men's Christian association. "Pisco John's," aa Nicol's place was! known to thousands, had a bar and a tiled floor which tradition said cams around Cape Horn many years ago It was a resort of the gentle and the 'elite and because Nlcol would permit no rowdyism. It hceamo a privileged, , houso where women might drink at the bar. Nightly scores irom fashion-! able residence districts and uptown1 cafes went downtown to the Bank Exchange Ex-change for the famed drink. The Bank Exchange was opened In the fifties. In the seventies, Nlcol, a I lonely and penniless boy. arrived from Scotland and soon after took over tho roeort. Theu came the Pisco punch. Nlcol says he cannot remember when , he Invented th drink I Always tb recipe for the punch has been a secret Nlcol has kept. He alone .knows what went Into It besides Pisco brandy from Peru. "Mr. Volstead cannot take the secret from me." Nlcol, ! declared recently Prohibition came, the Bank Ex-l Ex-l change do, d and Nlcol and his wife took a trip back to Scotland but did not remain there long "Even there ' prohibition Is on Its wsy." hs asserted on returning. "It is a changed world." I Although his occupation of years was gone. Nlcol was r.ot satisfied to remain idle. He entered the Y. M. C. A. school and took Dp the study of what i make the automobile go. "Toung fellows like roe can't afford to get rusty.- he said. |