Prohibition-themed parties are being organized in several placed to welcome the New Year, and to reminisce the Roaring Twenties in a different kind of New Year's Eve celebration.
New York Times compiled a few establishments where such party will be held as we welcome 2016.
Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver will host a party at its underground cocktail bar incidentally called Prohibition. Guests would feel like travelling back to 1920s. They will be served with "seasonal punches, traditional absinthe service and vintage cocktails served on its black stone bar underneath a custom-designed glass-and-metal chandelier," says New York Times. Prior to the party, the visitors will have ingress in an unmarked door at the hotel. The cost is $236 per person per seat.
US Grant Hotel, located at the historic Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego will continue with its tradition of hosting its annual Bivouac New Year's Eve celebration. This year would be the fourth. At a ticket price of $50 to $975, unlimited sparkling wine will be served from 9:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. Guests will also be served absinthe cocktails, specialty cask ales and absinthe-infused ice cream.
Also on its fourth year, Prohibition NYE in Los Angeles will host its Roaring Twenties celebration in Union Station at $150 per person. There will be live jazz, an open bar and burlesque dancers.
Meanwhile, at Hotel Congress in Tucson, the same themed party will be held at pop-up bar called Opium Den-plus a juke joint. Tickets are sold at $25, inclusive of admission and a toast with mesquite-smoked whiskey.
Then there is the Newseum on Washington that will hosta "Great Gatsby"-inspired black-tie "Night at the Newseum" New Year's Eve gala to honor F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is buried in Rockville, Md. Tickets are priced from $135 to $195.
In an email to NYT, Paul Dickson, who wrote "Contraband Cocktails: How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To" says that parties of such kind evokes the Prohibition era. "We are still fascinated with the culture of the time - the Algonquin Round Table, Dashiell Hammett's 'Thin Man,' the boozy escapades of W. C. Fields and so much more. The Great Gatsby' is, after all, a novel about a bootlegger."
The list is complete. All you have to do is decide where you want to go. Just remember that it's New Year and a clean slate-another chance to live the life we all deserve.
