#johnnie walker

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Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill in Rome

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Johnnie Walker Black Label (1947)

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[periodically80s]

#New York Magazine #1982 #Johnnie Walker #1987

[aworldofpattern]

Johnnie Walker Blue Year Of The Dragon edition, designed by James Jean, 2024

'Just as maturing whiskies blossom into life after careful aging in wooden casks, in 2024 the year of the Wood Dragon helps good fortunes flourish.'

James Jean is a Taiwanese-American artist known for his illustrations, paintings, and comic book covers.

He has also collaborated with Prada on several occasions, producing print designs for clothing and accessories.

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Marie Prevost-Johnnie Walker-Barbara Stanwyck "Mujeres ligeras" (Ladies of leisure) 1930, de Frank Capra.

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[dandyads]

Johnnie Walker, 1988

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‘Born 1820 ... stil going strong’

Advertisement for Johnnie Walker (1959).

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this scotch tastes like acid reflux and a house fire Happy New Year y'all

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johnny ig update

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[periodically80s]

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[scotianostra]

On July 25th 1805 John Walker was born in Kilmarnock, nowadays remembered as Johnnie Walker, he went on to found the Johnnie Walker whisky distillery empire.

When his father Alexander died in 1820, John was left £417 in trust. In 1820 the trustees invested in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and spirits shop on King Street in Kilmarnock.

An 1852 flood destroyed virtually all of the stock Walker held, but the business recovered within a couple of years. His own whisky brand, then known as "Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky" was popular locally.

In 1833 John married Elizabeth Purves. Their son Alexander had apprenticed with a tea merchant in Glasgow, and there learned the art of blending tea. When he returned to take over the business from his ailing father, he used those skills to create Old Highland Whisky, (eventually renamed Johnnie Walker Black Label) the first of Walker's blends which became popular far beyond Ayrshire.

Although he gave his name to the whisky, John Walker was a far less important figure to the brand than his son, Alexander, as it was he who persuaded his father to abandon the narrow realm of the grocery trade and to go into wholesale trading. At the beginning, the firm offered a range of spirits: Campbeltown whisky from the Kintyre Peninsula; whisky from the Inner Hebridean Island of Islay, with its pungent smokey flavour; patent still, or grain, whisky; and "Glenlivet", Speyside whisky. Even so, whisky sales under John Walker represented just 8 percent of the firm's income; by the time Alexander was ready to pass on the company to his own sons, that figure had increased to between 90 and 95 percent.

The magnificent Johnnie Walker Bond building still stands in the town centre and has a statue of John, as seen in the picture, which does not take the form of the famous 'Striding Man' image created in the first half on the 20th Century and which is recognised the world over - along with the 'Born 1820 Still Going Strong' motto.

Sadly, the closure of the huge Johnnie Walker bottling plant in 2012, (once the world's largest) and the associate blending and bond operations in and around the town severed all links with Kilmarnock.

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