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elleng

(136,690 posts)

4. Sure, The Big Book.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 07:42 PM

Jul 2018

https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/alcoholics-anonymous

Nothing like that occurred in my/our house, tho my parents were not abstainers. They and their friends occasionally attended/gave parties, but 'cocktails' weren't the excuse, more like celebrations of some sort, including New Years Eve.

My husband, on the other hand, WAS alcoholic, and that + smoking resulted in his death (@ age 69.) He hid the alcohol he drank at home (except when we gave parties.)

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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