Prohibition ended at 2:32 PM
And there's a rather swank-looking bar called Vessel in downtown Seattle that will be celebrating this fact by opening its doors at 2:32 PM, and offering beer and bubbly for $2.32 all day on December 5th.
GET YOUR FEDORA and your drink on at Vessel on Dec. 5, aka Repeal Day, when the hip downtown cocktail lounge celebrates the fall of Prohibition. The bar will open at 2:32 p.m. -- marking the exact time of repeal on the West Coast -- and serve beer and bubbly for $2.32 all day. Dress in period garb for a 33 percent discount from your bar bill (because Prohibition was repealed in 1933, natch). And with the money you save, you can take a crack at a bottle of authentic Prohibition whiskey, circa 1931. What does 76-year-old whiskey taste like? Freedom.
I think I'll pass on the "authentic Prohibition whiskey," considering that most of what was made in the U.S. during Prohibition was undrinkable swill. Cocktails became very popular in the 1920s, because you needed something to cover up the taste of the horrible stuff that passed for booze in those days.
The real question is: what do I own that was fashionable in the 1920s? Hey undycat, I know your specialty is a bit earlier, but do you happen to have any good historical fashion links? I'm just looking for a good source of images. Also, I know my hair is about the right length, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it. My Google search yields the very interesting information that the introduction of the bob haircut led to the invention of the bobbie pin. Obvious once you have the two terms next to each other, but something that had never occurred to me.
GET YOUR FEDORA and your drink on at Vessel on Dec. 5, aka Repeal Day, when the hip downtown cocktail lounge celebrates the fall of Prohibition. The bar will open at 2:32 p.m. -- marking the exact time of repeal on the West Coast -- and serve beer and bubbly for $2.32 all day. Dress in period garb for a 33 percent discount from your bar bill (because Prohibition was repealed in 1933, natch). And with the money you save, you can take a crack at a bottle of authentic Prohibition whiskey, circa 1931. What does 76-year-old whiskey taste like? Freedom.
I think I'll pass on the "authentic Prohibition whiskey," considering that most of what was made in the U.S. during Prohibition was undrinkable swill. Cocktails became very popular in the 1920s, because you needed something to cover up the taste of the horrible stuff that passed for booze in those days.
The real question is: what do I own that was fashionable in the 1920s? Hey undycat, I know your specialty is a bit earlier, but do you happen to have any good historical fashion links? I'm just looking for a good source of images. Also, I know my hair is about the right length, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it. My Google search yields the very interesting information that the introduction of the bob haircut led to the invention of the bobbie pin. Obvious once you have the two terms next to each other, but something that had never occurred to me.