I am a fan of this article! Particularly this quote:
Park Avenue women in cloche hats and ermine coats gripped bottles of wine with one hand and wiped real tears with the other.
And then this:
They believed that props—a string of fish, a pitcher of milk, trombones, a fishing rod, a big pail of pickles—were essential to success.
Why is this not a movie?
/LARC - Carla
In the early days of the Dry Era, nobody on the Federal Prohibition Bureau infiltrated and took down more NYC speakeasies than master-of-disguise agent Izzy Einstein and his partner, Moe Smith.
But sometimes it took more than clever deceit to fool a wary bootlegger. Sometimes it took cold,…
(Source: Smithsonianmag.com)
