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To: TimF who wrote (95599)	1/17/2005 10:16:12 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793575

Gin is legal today and we don't have "18th century London". Good point. Why not? Maybe because it's illegal for anybody under the age of 21 to drink, and it's not as cheap as it used to be. I have to admit, I don't know what the cheapest bottle of hard liquor costs. $10? But my guess is that social intolerance is what turned the tide. The New Orleans I grew up in had a terrible wino district which I experienced first hand because the printing company I worked at was right in the heart of it, Julia Row. I would have to pass by derelicts passed out on the street lying in their own vomit and feces in order to get to work. It was that way from when I was a little kid, probably longer than that. They drank cheap fortified wine, muscatel, full of sugar since they wouldn't spend their money on food. Flophouses everywhere. Then New Orleans got the World's Fair, and later gambling, and cleaned up that area, and now it's all chichi shops. No more winos. No more flophouses. Where did they go?