By JOSH OZERSKY
Citysearch.com
September 21, 2009
"With “Mad Men” now in its third season, it seems like everybody, male or female, wants to be Don Draper, the show's debonair, amoral antihero. He's the coolest of the cool, a collected type-A male who has never heard of sharing or self-doubt and who exudes New York City machismo right down to his polished wingtips. But if you want to be like Don Draper, you have to go to the kind of air-conditioned mid-century institution men like Don would go to. And there are only a few left...
'21' Club
Don might make a deal at The Four Seasons, but 21 is where he’d go to schmooze Sterling Cooper's potential clients--or for that matter, to pick up a well-dressed floozy. The former speakeasy was and is the official watering hole for high-bourgeois WASPs, and it has resisted the current recession with Draper's characteristic boozy aplomb. If you want to have a martini with the king of the Mad Men, 21 is the place to do it."
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