A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival. (Wikipedia) 
Tag: Alcohol
A Toast!
Here’s to a better 2022!
Her Martini by Henry Clive, 1920
Brault Limonade, 1938
Poster advertising Brault Sparkling Limonade. Artwork by Phillipe H. Noyer.
A Foreign Artist’s Idea…
… Of Modern Day New York
Vanity Fair, 1924, by Belgian artist Frans Masereel
Whisky Vending Machine
Woman demonstrating Whisky Vending Machine at a trade show for vending machine manufacturers in 1960.
1937 Labatt Beer Truck
Famous auto designer Count Aleis de Sakhnoffsky designed an imaginative and remarkably large line of beer trucks for Labatt breweries in Canada. Canadian beermakers used coachwork trucks as rolling ads, because they weren’t allowed to advertise their products in print. (Hemmings Motor News)
Bootlegger’s Pistol
The things they went through to hide their booze…
Alcohol is Illegal!
100 years ago, on 1/17/1920, the 18th amendment became the law of the land, making the production, importation, sale and transportation illegal in the USA.
New Atlantis, 1919
He Knows When You Are Sleeping
