Here’s the skinny from the Los Angeles Times about a club in Los Angeles where the high and mighty got silly and drank during Prohibition…

Goofy Goings-On at Honcho Hangout – Los Angeles Times.

The founder was the grandfather of the infamous Haldeman who was involved in the Watergate scandal. Grand papa was a “plumbing magnate” from Chicago who missed the “Hi Jinx” of his friends back home – so he recreated their (all male) milieu in a club house in Rustic Canyon.

A Group of happy campers at the dinner table in 1939:

Dressed up for the “Hillbilly Picnic”:

The winners at the Uplifters Pajama contest:

Here’s Milton Berle entertaining 3000 servicemen at the Uplifters USO picnic in 1942:

You’re welcome, Mr. Lanier! I feel certain some of those ‘hillbillies” are men in drag 😉