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“Whenever bartenders come here to Alexandria, I always send them to The Hour. It is the coolest cocktail shop around. This lady named Victoria has basically scoured antique stores for shakers and antique glassware. It's kind of an ode to a bar and definitely one of the coolest shops I've ever been to in my life. It's good and bad, because you end up going in, getting totally sucked in and spending a ton of money!”

- Bartender Todd Thrasher of PX, Restaurant Eve and TNT in Alexandria, VA

“In with the old” is Victoria Vergason’s motto for her vintage barware shop called The Hour. Three years ago, she opened the cocktail boutique named after Bernard DeVoto's book from the 1950s that recognized the cocktail as one of the best U.S. inventions of the 20th century. Most of the items in the collection date from the 1920s to the 1970s and, for the most part, were made in the U.S. by companies that no longer exist.

The Hour also sells new glassware and bar items, such as trays, coasters, napkins, cocktail picks, whisky stones and large ice cube molds.