Sometimes it seems surreal that we’re still within 100 years of the female right to vote. Or that the amendment just prior established Prohibition, an era that saw no relief until FDR swooped in. He legalized beer and wine just 9 days into office–a holdover until the 21st Amendment was ratified in December of ‘33. The Volstead Act, which enforced the dry-out-America amendment, banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors”–but never addressed possession. Which made for some interesting methods of indulgence…As detailed in Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Michael A. Lerner, bars simply morphed into clubs with hefty cover charges and–voila!–free drinks. He describes how whiskey was obscured inside chocolate bunnies and rye in olive oil tins, not to mention in coconut shells and garden hoses! And in a valiant attempt to bypass producing anything overtly fermented, vineyards in CA came up with an unfermented grape concentrate called Vine-Glo, which promised that “although its juices were unfermented when sold to a customer…the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine.” Oh the sly troubadours of the Jazz Age…