Creator
St. Francis Hotel
Title
Canners League of California Banquet
Coverage
San Francisco
Date
January 8, 1920
Description
The Eighteenth Amendment called for a nationwide ban that prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. This die-cut menu features magnificent comic illustrations about Prohibition. The banquet was hosted by the American Can Company nine days before the country was supposed to go dry. As it happened, the hotels in San Francisco became notorious for skirting the Prohibition laws: Within two years there were reportedly some 1,500 speakeasies in the city.