Description
Full color 8″ x 11″ ad for their two bottles of Two Fingers Tequila. The ad has a faded picture of an old man in suspenders holding up a bottle of this product while, behind him, there are several other people staring at the action. “Amigo, you don’t woo a good woman or make a good tequila overnight”, the man says. “Some things in life are extra delicate. Like my Two Fingers Tequila and every woman I ever knew.” An old desert rat and his wife remember Two Fingers telling them that. They figured he was a strange dude with a name like Two Fingers. But he sure sold a macho tequila. “My boys and I squeeze this tequila out drop by drop” he winked. And that’s as far as he would go on details about making his tequila, or about himself for that matter. “Like my tequila, like me” he once told a storekeeper in Flagstaff, Ariz. Two Fingers and his tequila made a lot of friends in the late 30’s. Folks would see his truck – Two Fingers gripping the wheel with Honey at his side – and the word would spread fast. “How come you deliver your own tequila?” It was a question Two Fingers was always asked. “Cause I know it gets there just fine. And I spend a little time wooing Honey. Get it?” Our sources say Two Fingers made his trips north of the border until the end of the ’30s. The last man we could find who spoke to him was a retired Colorado state trooper. He helped Two Fingers fix a flat in the fall of ’39. (Two Fingers gave him his last bottle as thanks). After that not a word. And nobody’s quite sure why. They don’t make them like old Two Fingers anymore. But luckily for us his tequila lives on”.
Source: June 1977 Playboy.
