Alcohol
The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 05, 2024 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Music, 1950s, Alcohol
The Role of Wine in the Great 1906 California Quake
Everyone knows the drama of the Great 1906 Quake that devastated San Francisco.. But since California is famous for its wine production, it was only natural that wine played a part. Here are two such incidents out of who knows how many.
And in nearby Santa Rosa.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 27, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Destruction, Regionalism, 1900s, North America, Alcohol
The Wayfarer’s Dole
From Gastro Obscura:The Church's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, History, Religion, United Kingdom, Alcohol
Ice Cubes and Beer
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 13, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Women, Alcohol
Drunken Hog Pile
Intoxicated animals is a favorite WU theme, going back, I think, to entries in Chuck Shepherd's NOTW.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 16, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1960s, Alcohol
Mabel the Lush
The artist.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 05, 2024 -
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Category: Addictions, Alcohol, Music, 1940s
Konjola
Read the full story here.It was a vegetable concoction with a high alcohol content that could be sold without prescription and gave comfort to many who could not or would not find a bootlegger to ease the strictures of Prohibition.
Konjola sold like bathtub gin in the Roaring Twenties. Gilbert and Roberta started Mosby Medicine by mixing up tubs of Konjola in their basement and bottling it themselves. By 1927, Mosby owned a factory on Reading Road in Avondale and was planning an even bigger complex up the road. Mosby bought a spectacular neon sign, 84 feet long and 32 feet high, to advertise Konjola on the central pier of the Atlantic City boardwalk.
And then it all fell apart.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 29, 2024 -
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Category: Regionalism, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1920s, Alcohol
Dutch Courage From Car Radiator
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 24, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Poisons and Other Injurious Substances, 1950s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #581
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 15, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, 1950s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #571
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 24, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol
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