Prohibition

[HadleyH]

Drinking at a Speakeasy. I do not know what sort of a glass that is ... but drinking she is!

 

[Connery]

Drinking at a Speakeasy. I do not know what sort of a glass that is ... but drinking she is!

It looks to be a beer stein with a cap and thumb lever. When the lever is depressed the cap opens, the contents can be accessed that way.

Much like this....

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[Gregg Axley]

This looks like a horned stein.
There are several on ebay.
I would imagine it's hard to set down on a table though, being that shape.

 

[Connery]

This looks like a horned stein.
There are several on ebay.
I would imagine it's hard to set down on a table though, being that shape.

The woman's right hand is holding the stein near the base. The shape of the stein seems to designed to be set down and used for drinking.

 

[HadleyH]

^^^

That sounds about right, thank you Gregg and Connery

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Prohibition? What's that [huh]

 

[Gregg Axley]

The girl may be holding her right hand that way to balance herself, since that's a lot of beer

 

[kiwilrdg]

I think it is a covered pitcher since it has a spout that can be seen between her lip and nose.

A pitcher would be better for a speak-easy because if they were raided in the off-hours there would not be any beer steins, just the milk pitchers.

 

[hatophile]

This looks like a horned stein.
There are several on ebay.
I would imagine it's hard to set down on a table though, being that shape.

That's the idea, you don't set it down, just keep fillin' and drinkin'!!!

 

[kiwilrdg]

I don't think it is a horned stein because if you notice her right hand it is supporting a bulbous base that is dark colored from the beer in the clear container.

 

[Gregg Axley]

You have a better resolution on your screen than I do.
Must have been a heck of a party.
If she was in a Southern speakeasy, the downing of the beer was probably preceeded by "hey yall, watch this."

 

[kiwilrdg]

You have a better resolution on your screen than I do.

Just a bit of time examining grainy images to find information. I knew where to look when I figured that the scalloped edge of the lip was a spout.

Looks like about a liter. A quite reasonable size beer. A little too much head on it. She is only drinking suds in the picture.

 

[Gregg Axley]

I did notice the head on it.
Must have been competing in the belching contest later on.
But if this is all they had back then, because of prohibition, any beer is better than none.
Reminds me of the Edward G Robinson movie "A Slight Case Of Murder" where his beer was awful, but nobody would tell him the truth, until after prohibition ended and his sales were as flat as his beer.

 

[kiwilrdg]

I only had beer that my grandmother made 1 time but she used the same stuff she used during prohibition and it was very good. She malted and milled her own grain. A step in brewing that I have not tried yet.

Making good beer is quite easy and malt extract was available that makes it even easier to make.

 

[HadleyH]

ok.... lets win some more debates!:eusa_clap ...

what....

in Prohibition of course!


inside the boot, that was a popular place for the flapper to put her flask !

 

[kiwilrdg]

It is really interesting to see the variety of ways that prohibition was circumvented by the public. Since there is so much information from so many areas coming together here I am really seeing how inaccurate the stereotypes that TV and movies use are.

 

[mayserwegener]

Breakfast in the Free State! HLM 1927 (Have this one framed!)

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken liberates a Baltimore bar with the first drink after prohobition was repealed. Photo by Frank Miller, 1933/file photo

 

[HadleyH]

more "prohibition"

photos LOL

 

[HadleyH]

LOL

the Dry Years.... what can one say.... politics are ...lol.... I can't find the word.. ludicrous? haaaa


all dry LOL

totally dry ~~~~~ really????? LOL

 

[Story]

Secrets of a house in Denver
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t4#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/15/co-booby-trapped-home.kmgh

 

[HadleyH]

Secrets of a house in Denver
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t4#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/15/co-booby-trapped-home.kmgh

Very interesting!! Thank you for posting!:eusa_clap