Pete Best Turns Early Beatles Venue Into Airbnb — Rooms Named After All Members Except Ringo

In 1954, a Liverpool resident named Mona Best pawned all her jewelry and bet the money on a horse named Never Say Die to win the Epsom Derby at 33-1 odds. Jockey Lester Piggott rode the horse to victory, and Best used her gambling winnings to purchase a house she’d become smitten with, an old vacant Conservative Club that somewhat resembled Dracula’s castle. In 1959, taking inspiration from a news report about the 2i’s Coffee Bar in London, she opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the homeâ...

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