Ken Burns' doc "Prohibition"

[ThirstyDrunk]

This was a great show, it actuallly made me drink more. And I love a happy ending. Aint nobody gonna try that shit again here in this country. Fuck republicans, fuck the Klan, and fuck the womens christian temperance buullshit.
I am more drunker than i shouold be on a weeknight and I want a bigass 1920s Meyer Lansky mob hat.

[Badfellow]

It's sort of sad watching all those old reels, realizing that people used to have so much more style. No more fedoras and double breasted suits. All the flappers have tramp stamps. The thrill is gone.

[John Barleycorn]

2 things.

It seems that in the old days they had some kind of knife they used to clear foam that was rough from pouring off the head of the beer by scraping it across the glass. What is this and why are they doing this? Is it related to the carbonation from real beer barrels being more robust?


All the things I don't like about bars (loud music, dancing, people going there to be seen instead of just to get drunk) seems to come from the speakeasy times. The saloon, on the other hand, sounds like a fantastic place (free lunches, playing cards, billiards, drinking until you are so drunk that you end up in a ditch outside of the bar). Did prohibition ruin America's bar culture?

[Wingman]

It seems that in the old days they had some kind of knife they used to clear foam that was rough from pouring off the head of the beer by scraping it across the glass. What is this and why are they doing this? Is it related to the carbonation from real beer barrels being more robust?

they still have those. i've seen 'em used in places that have pretentions.

All the things I don't like about bars (loud music, dancing, people going there to be seen instead of just to get drunk) seems to come from the speakeasy times. The saloon, on the other hand, sounds like a fantastic place (free lunches, playing cards, billiards, drinking until you are so drunk that you end up in a ditch outside of the bar). Did prohibition ruin America's bar culture?

ruin? i dunno. i agree with your reading of it; the saloon sounds like heaven. still haven't seen part 2, though.

[Chimneyfish]

No more fedoras and double breasted suits.

There are still people wearing fedoras, unfortunately. But the people who wear them these days are the last type of people you'd want to drink with.

[mr.dirty pants]

Great documentary. The only weird thing was in #3 when the old guy started talking about the clitoris. wtf?

[fiyah]

Going to watch these episodes over the next day or so. I'm really anxious to watch them after seeing them advertised during a football/baseball game. Yee-haw!

[John Barleycorn]

Great documentary. The only weird thing was in #3 when the old guy started talking about the clitoris. wtf?

That was fantastic. I was thinking "This seems off topic, but I'll hear him out"

[Wingman]

Great documentary. The only weird thing was in #3 when the old guy started talking about the clitoris. wtf?

what, no "spoiler alert?!?" some of us haven't seen them all, yet!

oh, and it occurs to me, vis-a-vis saloon vs. speakeasy, the main difference, really, besides legality, was the chicks.

[Superfucker]

I ain't seen it all yet, and I'm glad I have that to look forward too.

Post-prohibition the only justification for banishing sweet mother liquor to the evening hours is work and the dangers of drunk driving
Post-prohibition many of our societies problems are caused by the rise of the personal automobile and having thousands of cars on the road during the day
Post-prohibition many of us work mind numbing jobs that we'd actually be better at slightly buzzed.

Seems to me the best solution is to drink all day, take public transport, and not have a job where you don't operate any machinery heavier than the secretary.

[Aloysius_of_Tahiti]

I remember when my town outlawed booze a few years back, I set up an illegal gin factory in my basement. My buddy Moe ran an underground speak-easy and I supplied him with the finest bathtub gin in the land through a complex tube system involving the local bowling alley.
Wait...that's an episode of the Simpsons. Oh well, at least I still refer to myself as the Beer Baron.

[nileblackflame]

Just starting to watch episode one now, already enjoying with a glass of rum in hand.

[ADHD]

Here it is, I found this link to the show, if you missed it...

http://video.pbs.org/video/15393956

I still gotta check out the last episode...