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rurallib

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2. Cocktail parties? Not in the small cities in the midwest when I grew up

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 07:37 PM

Jul 2018

But every place we (my parents) went there was alcohol and every thing we did revolved around availability of alcohol.

So my parents drank themselves to an early death. They came of age just after Prohibition ended and the depression was in full mode. For them alcohol was a cheap way to a good time.

Every body we knew drank. Heck when they got older they moved to a nice house about half a block from their favorite bar.

My theory for them was always the depression, plus both were orphaned early in life and raised by relatives.

And yes, I also had my first beer before I started school.

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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