Sun 12/4 @ 7PM-midnight
Prohibition — the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution — wasn’t exactly the roaring success that its moralizing proponents hoped. Instead it gave birth to the Roaring ’20s when a whole generation shed a whole bunch of inhibitions and the speakeasy became the center of social life for many. It was repealed in 1933 after 13 years.
Now Prosperity Social Club is using repeal as an excuse for a party even this many years later. There’ll be live blues, jazz and swing by Hollywood Slim from 7-9pm, dinner specials and drinks that will salute the 1920s sans bootlegged liquor.
“Every year we mark the end of the Volstead Act by partying like its 1933,” says Prosperity owner Bonnie Flinner. “We’ll be making Roaring Twenties’ mixed drinks that are nods to two iconic authors of the period who shared their love for a good drink in life and in literature.”
Those authors would be F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, both noted for their heavy drinking as well as their writing.
“We’ll also have Anchor Steam on special for $4.00,” adds Flinner. “Steam is a beer style brought over by Czech and Germans immigrants that managed to survive the dry spell that was America’s ‘noble experiment.’”
You are invited to come dressed in a 20s-inspired costume — an author, actor or actress, artist, musician or mobster of the period. Or if you want people to move out of your way when you arrive, come as a teetotaler! There’s no cover.