I love this entire photo gallery!
“This is a picture taken near the end of Prohibition,” Okrent says, “and what%u2019s notable about it is that you see respectable people in plush surroundings. This is not a fly-by-night place where the cops are going to come in and bust everybody. Maybe, being in New York, it’s a little bit fancier than it would have been in a some other places, but in San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, this is the way people were drinking while Prohibition was still in effect, in its last years. And nobody cares that their picture is being taken. It was absolutely socially acceptable to drink at a speakeasy by 1928 or ‘29.”
