The Cocktail Hour

The Cocktail HourWomen Weren't Really Liberated until the coming of that grand national free-for-all, the cocktail hour.Before Prohibition, bars had been one-sex affairs. A woman might sneak into the side door of a saloon to have her pitcher filled with larger and then go home to drink it alone. More respectable matrons would be escorted by gents into the Ladies' Café for an occasional ginger beer or port flip. During Prohibition any girl who drank was, of course, a dangerous piece of sweetmeat....