25 August 1963 They expected more crime, drunks. Instead

25 August 1963 They expected more crime, drunks. Instead it was. The Big Flop. Thursday August 15, 1962. Remember the day? Of course, the day prohibition ended. And after a year of free drinking and liquor-for-all, spirits are still high, everywhere. Wine farmers are happy, bar owners are happy, the breweries and distilleries are happy, and even the police are jubilant: what had been expected to be a national sozzle an extended orgy of drunken debauchery, chapter one in the book of misery, the first step towards death by rotting turned out to be so quiet, so sedate and so undramatic that even the harshest citics had to admit it: all the fuss and bother was nothing more than a big flop. (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ Baileys Archives)

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