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honestly when will ubisoft give me an assassins creed game set in the roaring 20s it’s my dream assassins creed game

#think of that art deco aesthetic #the weapons and outfits would look so good #jazz clubs #speakeasys #flapper girls #black characters #please

The search function in #Photos that #Apple have introduced is very impressive. Search cat and pictures of Daken show up but they're 1920s in their language... #Speakeasys, Apple? We call them bars! @scottbradlee and @pmjofficial would be pleased!

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My camera was too turnt up in this pic. It couldn't keep still. The immeasurably talented @anthonydavidatl at #speakeasys My mom said his voice reminded her of Terrence Trent Darby. It's true.

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The Prohibition

Yes, the American phenomenon that banned alcohol. Wasn't their best plan... It started speakeasies and made most Americans go elsewhere such as the Savoys American bar to enjoy a proper tipple. What it really did however was make alcohol cool. What a cock up... Sound familiar to anything else now?

I mean, what were they thinking!? "Oh yeah, here's a thing everyone loves, ban it. Now. Nope, just do it. Health and shit." *Presumably smokes pipe like a fucking hypocrite*. Banning alcohol and not smoking? What?!

Cocktails thrived. What didn't thrive were the ingredients. Some of it went backstreet, others left others disappeared entirely. Making a lot of pre-prohibition recipes nearly impossible to recreate. Great one America.

I've just picked up an old hobby of mine, making cocktails. I love trying to find the ones time forgot. It's truly fascinating, and now that cocktails are back in style (at least they are here in London) I can really experiment. Hell, some of the long lost ingredients have come back (creme de violette for example, woop!)

In many ways, I'd argue the prohibitions effects have not passed. Before it, the style of drinking I love was about, enjoying flavours and savouring sips. This continued during the prohibition but afterwards all fucking hell broke loose as people were suddenly allowed to drink again. It's just calming down, and not just in America but all over the world.

Yeah, I blame the prohibition for a lot of shit. It was an AWFUL idea... But, still. We've bounced back now, and the art of Mixology lives on. Well, it does in my cocktail cabinet at the very least, although in my case it's often a little misguided...

#Mixology #prohibition #alcohol #ban #speakeasys #cocktails #drinks #tipple #dam #flavour #savour #misguided #mixology

I have a slight obsession with secret clubs and bars. Movie theaters found in the catacombs under Paris. Oddly enough we had something like this in college, but the water tank was enormous and you went in through the top. One year they turned it into a speakeasy.

#secret clubs #speakeasys #the new york times #the fedoras oy