The South End\u2019s never had a tavern \u2026 at least not a legal one.\u00a0 Never had a bar.\u00a0 Surely never had a cocktail lounge.\u00a0 The Diner doesn\u2019t have a liquor license although the Marina and Bait Shop can sell beer or wine To Go, but they don\u2019t allow drinking on the dock.<\/p>\n
Well, okay, they allow discreet drinking on the dock.\u00a0 Meaning, pour your beverage into a coffee mug or drink like the bums do from a bottle in a paper bag.\u00a0 Legalities are fluid down here, needless to say.\u00a0 It\u2019s more than a bit ironic that the South End, notoriously bibulous, is today \u2013 and always has been \u2013 legally dry.\u00a0 This was, after all, one of the destinations of Prohibition rumrunners bringing in Canadian booze to us thirsty statesiders trying mightily to avoid the DT\u2019s and wicked withdrawal.\u00a0 Back then we South Enders had our own speakeasy in the form of a bevy of burlesque dancers and their impresario who partied into the dusk of the Great Depression.\u00a0 Our old shack once boasted the marquis poster of Miss Ruby, our own in-house stripper, one of those party girls who now graces our bedroom with her still risqu\u00e9 outfit.\u00a0 She lived in our shack with her mom Pearl and then built the house next door that still stands too, although, like ours, not without a lot of help.<\/p>\n
So I guess the tradition of private parties, ad hoc speakeasies, impromptu makeshift livingroom lounges still flourishes.\u00a0 Some might suggest this makes us a refuge of scofflaws, an accusation we accept as no small approbation and certainly nothing new down here.\u00a0 If we want to drink in legally sanctioned-by-the-state houses of intoxication, we obviously are forced to drive long distances.\u00a0 Since drinking and driving are rightly frowned upon in modern society, we South Enders have decided our best and obvious recourse is to do em one at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The South End\u2019s never had a tavern \u2026 at least not a legal one.\u00a0 Never had a bar.\u00a0 Surely never had a cocktail lounge.\u00a0 The Diner doesn\u2019t have a liquor license although the Marina and Bait Shop can sell beer or wine To Go, but they don\u2019t allow drinking on the dock. Well, okay, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}