Baby Boomers

no_hypocrisy

(49,101 posts) Tue Jul 17, 2018, 07:25 PM Jul 2018

Please explain this to me. [View all]

What was it about cocktails and cocktail parties that made it so popular with our parents' generation, from the 50s to the 70s. It's similar but not the same as our generation enjoying a toke or more.

My parents drank into their seventies and eighties. Quasi-alcoholics. When my father died, I counted 40 bottles of opened liquor bottles. They entered drinking age approximately 1946, years after Prohibition ended.

Hell, I remember my parents calling me over when I was three to taste their cocktails.

Is there a book that discusses this topic?

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Please explain this to me. [View all] no_hypocrisy Jul 2018 OP

I think partly is it was an inexpensive way Phoenix61 Jul 2018 #1

Cocktail parties? Not in the small cities in the midwest when I grew up rurallib Jul 2018 #2

Alcohol was the only recreational drug available at the time. procon Jul 2018 #3

Sure, The Big Book. elleng Jul 2018 #4

My parents never had cocktail parties Ohiogal Jul 2018 #5

Cigarettes and cocktails in 1965 LakeArenal Jul 2018 #6

My parents rarely drank. It just wasn't their thing. They would buy a bottle of wine to Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #7

My mother was a real estate agent in the 60's HeiressofBickworth Jul 2018 #8

Wine was rare until 1970s unc70 Jul 2018 #9

And the beer that was available back then PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #12

"Sophistication!" 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #10

Cocktail parties were not as common as you might think. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #11