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Message:: [QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 85960, member: 44"]Probably not, but any booze from that era certainly conjure up images of mob stuff and stuff. Also I doubt any Joe Kennedy connection. I always find it interesting how relationships/connections can sometimes be made between events, people, etc. For example about a year before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by the actor John Wilkes Booth, his older more famous actor brother Edwin Booth saved the life of Robert Lincoln, the president's oldest son and the only child that lived to adulthood. Edwin was a Lincoln supporter while his brother John Wilkes was a secessionist. "Ironically, Edwin Booth had actually saved the life of, or at least prevented serious injury to, Lincoln’s eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln the previous year. As Lincoln and Booth were waiting at a train platform to buy sleeping cars, the train began to move and Lincoln lost his footing. According to Robert Lincoln, Edwin Booth grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back to his feet. Lincoln recognized the famous actor and thanked him for his efforts, and Lincoln recalled the incident several times in writing and in conversation, although Booth did not know the name of the man he had saved until years later. It was less than a year after this event that Booth’s brother took the life of Lincoln’s father." Just another example of my obsession of historical trivia. --- Susan[/QUOTE]