Charles,

Thanks for this opportunity to remind listserv members that now would
be a good time to pay their ATHG dues for the 2001-2002 academic
year. There is information telling how to pay dues in the back of
each issue of the SHAR and the same can also be found at our website:
http://www.athg.org

To explain the connection - I'm making a renewal postcard for the
ATHG that reproduces a interior view of the Juarez Jockey Club around
1926. We have an elegant bartender in the center, the owners and some
regulars on the left, and a clear view of the liquor bottles behind
the bar on the right. As soon as I am able to adjust the black levels
in this digital photograph (I'm waiting for help from the printer),
I'll have it off for production.

Gordon's Dry Gin appears to be a liquor of choice in the Jockey Club,
though bottles of Vermouth and Port and also conspicuous beneath the
bar along with other bottles with illegible but probably
characteristic labels. The Jockey Club also appears to have served
most of its most popular hard liquors from unlabeled bottles (five of
seven) that may or may not be identifiable by designs in the glass of
the bottle itself.

Jon


>Colleagues:
>
>I am forwarding this message on behalf of an individual who is planning a
>documentary film on Prohibition in Texas and is interested in understanding
>the impact of the border and Mexico.  He is aware of the U.T. Arlington
>thesis, MONTE CARLO OF THE SOUTHWEST: A REINTERPRETATION
>OF U.S. PROHIBITION'S IMPACT ON CIUDAD JUAREZ.
>
>"I know in general that during Prohibition, Canada exported liquor to
>Mexico, and that Canadian liquor was smuggled into the United States from
>Mexico.  I also know, in general, that many U.S. distillers and distributors
>
>set up operations in Ciudad Juárez, where such operations were legal.
>
>"But I don't know specific brand names of wine, beer, and spirits, and that
>is why I am writing you.  I wish to know specifically what was available in
>Ciudad Juárez in October 1919, when Texas Prohibition came into effect; what
>
>was available in January 1920, when Constitutional Prohibition began; what
>was available a few years later; and what was available in April 1933, when
>3.2 beer became legal in the United States."
>
>You can contact Thomas Richardson directly at [log in to unmask] .  Thanks.


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