Harvey Wallbanger

The Harvey Wallbanger is a mixed drink made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.

The campaign was headed by George Bednar, marketing director of McKesson, and a cartoon character was commissioned from graphic artist William J.

"Bill" Young in Lima, New York,[1][2] with the tagline that Bednar claimed to have penned: "Harvey Wallbanger is the name.

"[3][4][5] The Harvey Wallbanger character was a surfer, appearing in various ads during the campaign, and was mentioned in print as early as 1969,[3] continuing into the 1970s.

This is implausible because at the time, Antone was running a bartending school in Hartford, and there is no evidence of any "Blackwatch Bar" in Los Angeles at the time, so it is presumably a fabrication; spirits writer Robert Simonson goes so far as to say that "no sane person ever believed that story.

The Harvey Wallbanger was marketed with a cartoon character of a surfer of the same name.