… Omer used to tend bar at Roma Antiqua, which is where L’Orchidee is now. I begged him to come work with me,” Lau recalls at the L’Autre Saison bar. “I would have made a million with him. He has the touch. There’s not a drink he doesn’t know how to make. And he knows just about everyone in town. He is a true Montreal original.”
Dotting the bar are photos of Brousseau with everyone from baseball star Sammy Sosa to Paul Newman: “One of the finest gentlemen I ever had the privilege of serving.”
Brousseau also remembers mixing drinks for late Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis and film star Dorothy Lamour. “Those were the days bars never closed in Montreal,” Brousseau reminisces, his eyes twinkling. “If the walls could have talked, what stories they would have told.
“People think Montreal is wild today. Hah! They have no idea what wild is.
“Those were the days Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis would show up regularly and play clubs like the El Morocco. Then there was Lili St. Cyr, the classiest stripper of them all, at the old Gayety Theatre.

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