[ExtremeUnction]

..arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922.

I remember talking with my grandfather many years ago who lived through prohibition. He said that everyone still drank, period. Perhaps events related to drinking declined because people who were drinking did not want to call attention to themselves.

[ansel12]

I remember talking with my grandfather many years ago who lived through prohibition. He said that everyone still drank, period. Perhaps events related to drinking declined because people who were drinking did not want to call attention to themselves.

Simple common sense tells you that can't be true. Consumption had to fall.

[aumrl]

All you have told us is that your grandfather kept drinking
PERIOD

(from a white ribbon baby)

[dorothy]

He said that everyone still drank, period.

Think a lot depended on where you lived. My mother lived in rural Kansas and said that everyone made their own beer and the more adventurous their own bathtub gin and moonshine. My father lived in Boston where the booze had to be brought in.