Irish pub in kitschy environment with thousands of signed paper shamrocks on the ceiling.
It was 1936 and Tom Bergin, a former aviator and practicing lawyer, wanted a watering hole that reminded him of the Boston pubs of his youth. His family had left Ireland's County Kerry for Boston, where they opened the Commercial Brewery and the Old Horseshoe Tavern in Haymarket Square. After securing what is supposedly the second oldest liquor license in L.A., Bergin opened Tom Bergin's Old Horseshoe Tavern & Thoroughbred Club.

This venerable Mid-City Irish pub has restored its original wood paneling, the horseshoe bar and the cathedral ceiling (its autographed shamrocks remain).