How did the prohibition era change during... , equipped with a plain old bar. – a fashion bar, serving gin cocktails…” (Allen 219.) The people who flocked to speakeasies were usually immigrants whose culture and rituals centered around drinking, wet community who didn't want the law to pass on the first pass, and the gangsters who supplied the alcohol through some sort of means. Along with the increase in crime, a further breakdown has occurred in social norms. Since drinking had become something that could be done anywhere before Prohibition, that meant it was done at home as well. This meant that women came into contact with alcohol and might even prepare some for their guests. This also meant that women could enjoy their own share of alcohol, so it was no surprise that being forced to drink "led women into the illicit wonder of the saloon, the speakeasy" (Murdock 88). Women were known as saloon morals. family, they were also considered delicate and therefore had no place in a living room, which housed men who drank. But with the application of

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