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Gin Babies – Flappers – Jazz Era at the Cocoanut Grove – 1927 – Hollywood

September 11, 2014 by Vickie Lester

What the room looked like at a local hotspot, the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel: A sketch of dancers in 1927: And, this is what you would have danced to:

Categories: Architecture, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized • Tags: charleston, Cocoanut Grove, dance, era, flaming youth, Flapper, Gatsby, gin baby, hip flask, history, Hollywood, Jack Payne and His Orchestra, Jazz, Los Angeles, Prohibition, short skirts, speakeasy, The Ambassador Hotel, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

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THE UPLIFTERS – HARRY HALDEMAN, SPENCER TRACY, HAROLD LLOYD, L. FRANK BAUM,

January 2, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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 […]

Categories: Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, law, Los Angeles, Movies, News, Photography, Politics, Relationships, Theater, Travel • Tags: Clark Gable, Club, grandfather, Haldeman, Harold Lloyd, hi jinx, Judges, lawyers, Milton Berle, plumbers, Politicians, Prohibition, retreat, Rustic Canyon, Sol Lesser, Spencer Tracy, Watergate, Will Rogers

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AFTER PROHIBITION WAS REPEALED IN LOS ANGELES

November 19, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Another beautiful photo by Dick Stagg:

Categories: Architecture, Culture, Design, Film, History, Hollywood, law, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Politics • Tags: beer, December 5 1933, drink, gin, Hollywood, Liquor store, Los Angeles, Photographer Dick Stagg, Prohibition, prohibition repealed, scotch, spirits, Twenty-first Amendment, vodka, whiskey, wine

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OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS – JOAN CRAWFORD

October 22, 2012 by Vickie Lester

This is pretty saucy stuff for the time – Joan Crawford shimmying in front of a mirror as she gets dressed to go out for the evening circa 1928, before recorded dialogue, but there was a synch soundtrack… –

Categories: Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: 1928, alcohol, decadence, directed by Harry Beaumont, flaming youth, Flapper, Gatsby era, history, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, John Mack Brown, loose morals, Los Angeles, Prohibition, silent film, speakeasy, synch soundtrack

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