Behind bars on Repeal Day
Snapshots from the second annual Prohibition-ending party in Ybor.
by Arielle Stevenson
- KEVIN TIGHE
- WITH A TWIST: Amber Davis and Olga Konstaninova at the Repeal Day Party in Tampa.
On December 5, 1933, the federal government officially ended Prohibition. The country hadn't exactly stopped drinking during the 13-year ban, but now glasses could be clinked in the open. Tampa Bay’s Left Coast Bartenders Guild celebrated the 79th anniversary of Repeal Day with a big party and lots of spirits at Ybor’s historic Don Vicente Inn on Sun., Dec. 2. The area’s top bartenders, and a few from elsewhere in the country (and globe), mixed over 30 different cocktails from back in the day. Dress was formal (and vintage) and party-goers got to take in live burlesque, music, food and folly.
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