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Philadelphia's elite built City Tavern as a place to drink, dine, and dance among themselves, where business and politics mixed and deals were often sealed with drinks. Delegates to the Continental Congress dined here, and in 1787 members of the Constitutional Convention adjourned here after four arduous months creating a new framework for government. John Adams called it "the most genteel one in America" in his diary entry of August 29, 1774.
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