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WSJ: Coronavirus Lockdowns Usher In the New Roaring ’20s
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lockdowns-usher-in-the-new-roaring-20s-11597429525?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lockdowns-usher-in-the-new-roaring-20s-11597429525?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
States with strict coronavirus lockdowns seem to be reliving the Roaring ’20s. Alcohol is legal in the 21st century’s version of Prohibition, but with restaurants, bars and other social spaces shut down, governors in California, New Jersey and New York are struggling to crack down on illicit summer soirees and speakeasies.
As in the 1920s, driving gatherings underground has encouraged other illicit behavior, including violence. Last week police busted up a party at a Santa Monica, Calif., mansion with hundreds of revelers that ended in a fatal shooting of a 35-year-old woman. Locals report that raves are frequent occurrences in the Hollywood Hills. At least two other parties in Los Angeles have resulted in gun violence.
“Since Covid, they’ve moved all the parties to the hills,” Sheila Irani, a member of the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council, told the Los Angeles Times. “The kids are going stir-crazy.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti last week said “these large house parties have essentially become nightclubs in the hills.” At least nightclubs have bouncers and security guards.
Some parties are merely virulent rather than violent. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has been grousing that illicit social gatherings are leading to a virus resurgence. Parties attended by teenagers in the suburb of Middletown have been linked to at least 55 cases, and a Long Beach Island party resulted in 35 lifeguards testing positive. Baywatch meets coronavirus.
On July 26 Jackson, N.J., cops spent five hours breaking up a party at a rented mansion with 700 guests. Its 23-year-old organizers from Newark had promoted the party on Facebook as a “Liberian Independence Day” celebration with a $1,000 twerking contest, free liquor pouches, jungle juice and Hennessy shots. Neighbors reported the house had hosted a party with some 500 people the night before.
Police earlier this month broke up a pool party at a mansion in ritzy Alpine, N.J., which NBC reported was owned by a personal-injury attorney. Guests reported spending $1,000 to attend. Shuttle buses dropped off hundreds of guests, many from New York City.
The party host said he was shocked, shocked that there were social-distancing and face-mask violations. “This is absolutely out of hand,” he told NBC. One partygoer was taken away by ambulance, so perhaps it’s lucky the host is versed in personal-injury law. Neighbors might also seek damages for creating a public nuisance.
As in the 1920s, driving gatherings underground has encouraged other illicit behavior, including violence. Last week police busted up a party at a Santa Monica, Calif., mansion with hundreds of revelers that ended in a fatal shooting of a 35-year-old woman. Locals report that raves are frequent occurrences in the Hollywood Hills. At least two other parties in Los Angeles have resulted in gun violence.
“Since Covid, they’ve moved all the parties to the hills,” Sheila Irani, a member of the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council, told the Los Angeles Times. “The kids are going stir-crazy.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti last week said “these large house parties have essentially become nightclubs in the hills.” At least nightclubs have bouncers and security guards.
Some parties are merely virulent rather than violent. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has been grousing that illicit social gatherings are leading to a virus resurgence. Parties attended by teenagers in the suburb of Middletown have been linked to at least 55 cases, and a Long Beach Island party resulted in 35 lifeguards testing positive. Baywatch meets coronavirus.
On July 26 Jackson, N.J., cops spent five hours breaking up a party at a rented mansion with 700 guests. Its 23-year-old organizers from Newark had promoted the party on Facebook as a “Liberian Independence Day” celebration with a $1,000 twerking contest, free liquor pouches, jungle juice and Hennessy shots. Neighbors reported the house had hosted a party with some 500 people the night before.
Police earlier this month broke up a pool party at a mansion in ritzy Alpine, N.J., which NBC reported was owned by a personal-injury attorney. Guests reported spending $1,000 to attend. Shuttle buses dropped off hundreds of guests, many from New York City.
The party host said he was shocked, shocked that there were social-distancing and face-mask violations. “This is absolutely out of hand,” he told NBC. One partygoer was taken away by ambulance, so perhaps it’s lucky the host is versed in personal-injury law. Neighbors might also seek damages for creating a public nuisance.
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Unemployment rates in the Northeast and California look more like the 1930s than the ’20s, but at least their underground party economies are thriving.
For you history noyds the Seattle Times did an interesting article at the start of the year on the “Roaring Twenties” that’s worth a read (includes HOT pics of UW coeds from the era):
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/studying-seattles-roaring-20s-history-might-help-us-get-through-this-next-decade/
And if you watch Ken Burn’s series on Prohibition, it calls out how Seattle was one of the cities that defied the liquor laws the most. ‘Cause back then we? were TUFF!
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/prohibition_seattle.shtml
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/liquor-flows-and-blood-spills-in-seattle-prohibition-bootleggers-rumrunners-graft-in-the-queen-city/
The J&M was ground zero!!