 Prohibition era "Saloon". This fake saloon was designed for tourists (to Canada?) who wanted a photo of them "breaking the law". Note the NO PARKING sign -- the rock says LAST CHANCE. |
- Here's to the bootleggers. They are meeting Prohibition half way. They always add water to their hooch!
Here's to the people who are so dumb they think Prohibition is a law.
Here's to Prohibition! It isn't so bad if it just doesn't get any worse.
Here's to bootleg whiskey. It makes even the most casual user come in like a lion and go out like a lamp!
A Toast from 1927:
Here's to the flapper, good and kind;
Let's drink her health in toddy.
She's nothing much upon her mind
And less upon her body.
Here's to prohibition -- drink her down!
Here's to our bootlegger -- he's never low in spirits!
Note: The bootlegger who boasts that he is a self-made man is not giving due credit to the Anti-Saloon League.
Note: In these days of bootleg liquor a night cap is apt to put a fellow to sleep for good.
Note: A great many night club guests don't wait for a raid to go under the table.
Note: She's only a bootlegger's daughter, but she has her good p'ints!
Hey! Hey! Who said that prohibition isn't a success? Just look at the enormous amount of ginger ale that is sold!
Add This: Then there is th bootlegger who walked all the way to the drug-store to get some poison to kill the cat.
Statistics: It's a heck of a lot more fun viewing the Niagara Falls from the Canadian side!
Across the Bar
First Bartender -- I dreamed the cops raided the place last night.
Second Ditto -- Ain't it funny the crazy things a guy will dream!
Happy Thought
The world is so full of this bootlegger's gin
I am sure we shall soon be all blistered within.
- Thirsty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest are thirsty, too;
And what's a thirsty man to do?
[1926 Morley pg. 84]
- Let come what will, let come what may,
But Prohibition took our breath away.
[1926 Morley pg. 85]
- Here's
to beefsteak when you're hungry --
Something else? when you're dry.
Lots of pretty, pretty girlies, --
And heaven when you die.
[1926 Morely pg 94]
- POST-PROHIBITION:
DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH GOOD HARD CIDER
Drink to me only with good hard cider.
Or rye, or a Scotch highball.
Drink to me with any old thing,
Just as long as it's alcohol.
For now that the wets have won the day,
And prohibition is through,
To drink to me only with thine eyes
Is a hell of a thing to do.
[1963 Frank Lynn, pg 153]