December 15, 2025
Tag: Lotus Room
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The Dazzling Nightspots of Post-Prohibition America
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This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of America’s journey into the dark, dry years of Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified on January 16th, 1919, forbid the production, sale and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” but was ineffective in curtailing the consumption of alcohol, beer, and wine in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson vetoed the…
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October 5, 2023 4 Comments
In 1979 a television episode of M*A*S*H was aired that involved a party that took place in 1953. Now in 2023, the program can be seen every few months as a cable-television rerun. Today we revisit the program and the loose-ends that come to mind all these years later. Postcards help tell the story.