Who got drunk during Prohibition on PBS?

[Skink]

Could be a habit.

[FSogol]

1. Awesome documentary. n/t

[Viking12]

2. Not drunk, but I had a few drinks

It was really interesting how the start of WWI and the anti-German sentiment was parlayed into an anti-beer position.

[RKP5637]

7. I had never known that 'till we watched it last night. n/t

[WI_DEM]

3. superb documentary--it was intoxicating.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. We did

A real photo

[RKP5637]

10. Thank god for liquor! Now I know why people drank so much! n/t

[monmouth]

17. Should I feel embarrassed if pics of my mother during the '20s should

appear in her "flapper" days? She spent a lot of time in New York during those times..LOL.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. I got your mom's picture right here

Oh Mama.

[monmouth]

21. Mom would love you...n/t

[RKP5637]

23. Mine too! I have pictures of her then. Imagine what people 100 yrs. from now

will think of us! LOL

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. Not to be unkind, but there's not one there who would not benefit

from beer-goggles.

[Xithras]

24. Lol. FYI, that image isn't exactly "real".

It's genuinely old, but it's not what you think it is.

After Thomas Edisons company invented the first large scale movie camera, he started the worlds first movie studio (Black Maria Studios) to keep people interested in the technology. That still is taken from an anti-prohibition comic spoof shot in the 1890's. The image is ironic because it was meant to be ironic.

Of course, it's pretty cool that we can still laugh at a century old joke. Real comedy survives the ages :)

[leveymg]

5. Enjoyed an IPA or two during that broadcast. American politics are chaos.

It's a wonder we made it this far with religious Fundamentalism, xenophobia and intolerance playing such a huge role for so long.

[tridim]

6. When does his cannabis prohibition documentary air?

It's practically the same story, minus the death due to drinking poison.

[leveymg]

9. I almost choked on my beer at the irony of that unspoken truth.

[Gin]

11. I watched....didn't drink....and found many parallels to the situation

in the country today....different drug this time...it's green and our "god of choice" = money.

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[RKP5637]

13. Yeah, my thoughts too while watching it, same old sh** all over again. n/t

[justiceischeap]

8. Missed it last night but met him this morning.

I've seen bits and pieces of it over the last couple of weeks but didn't get to see Part 1 last night.

[renate]

22. cool! lucky you! n/t

[pipoman]

12. It is amazing to watch the Washington crowd,

including our President, so adamant about maintaining our current, debt producing, ineffective, crime ridden, murderous prohibition. Ending this disaster is a squandered opportunity for O to actually do something which would prove a gold star on his legacy, imho.

[RKP5637]

15. +1000 +++ n/t

[ChiciB1]

14. LOVED IT... Burns Does GREAT WORK! n/t

[frazzled]

16. That first episode was FASCINATING

(even though I'd already had a glass of wine at dinner before watching). This was a part of the history that we weren't all that familiar with--beginning in pre-civil war times. I was intrigued how so many issues intersected in this movement (feminism and proto-suffragette types, anti-immigrant sentiments, reformers who wanted to ameliorate poverty, teetotaling religious types) as well as so many groups (from the Temperance unions to the IWW and even Frederick Douglass!).

It was also fascinating to learn that the federal government was getting 70% of its revenues from liquor taxes! It wasn't until the income tax was ushered in in 1913 that it was even conceivable that the government would consider going after liquor. And then the big mistake they made in allowing an amendment to pass through Congress while putting a time limit on the ratification process, thinking that they'd never get 36 states to ratify in 7 years. It took less than two.

I haven't been a great fan of some of these Ken Burns series (and we've known Ken since the 1970s, and admire him). But this one was great. Will definitely tune in for the rest.

[tblue]

20. TiVoed! Can't wait to watch and maybe I will have a beer.,

:toast:

[liberal N proud]

25. I did have a beer sitting next to me while I watched it

Thought it rater appropriate. "Liquid bread"

:rofl: