Happy Days Are Here Again: Prohibition Repealed This Day In 1933
• December 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Blue eagle, Cuba, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, prohibition, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: "roaring twenties", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1933, 21st Amendment, alcohol, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, beer, bootleggers, campaign theme songs, Champagne, Democratic National Convention (1932), Dick's Bar (Havana), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gangsters, Happy Days Are Here Again, Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows, immigrants, Joan Blondell, Kate Greenaway, Ku Klux Klan, presidential vetos, Prohibition, rum, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), speakeasies, Temperance Movement, Volstead Act, wine, Woodrow Wilson, zenophobia
The Promise of Paradise: Wolfsonian Exhibition on Cuba Opens
• May 16, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, architecture, collectors, Cuba, curator, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, interns, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, posters, prohibition, Tobacco, typography, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: actors, Afro-Cuban jazz, alcohol, Alice Faye, Arthur Murray Dance Studios, Bacardi, Bambu Club, beaches, Cabaret Panchin, Cabaret Pennsylvania, Cabarets, Carmen Miranda, Carole Lombard, Carteles, Casinos, celebrities, cha cha cha, Club La Conga, Coca-cola, Cuban dance, Cuban music, dancers, Desi Arnaz, drinking, Eden Concert, El Frutero (song), El Morro Castle (Havana), Entertainers, Ernesto Lecuona, exhibition installations, gambling, George Raft, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Havana Nights: Exploring Cuba Through Art and Film, Holiday in Havana, Hollywood films, La Republica, Latin music, Lobby cards, mambo, Margo, Mary Hatcher, Mary Taylor Moore, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Modern architecture, Montmartre, movie stars, museum openings, musical fusions, Nat King Cole, Nightclubs, Out of the Fog (film), Paradise, Perez Prado, Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure - Amercan Seduction, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Sans Souci, Sheet music covers, showgirls, singers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, socialites, sugar, tourism, Tropicana Nights, Two Latins from Manhattan (film), U.S.-Cuba relations, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
