Happy Holidays! And happy Holiday parties and events!
Before we get into all the hot happens for the holidays, let’s give a big PubClub cheers to today – the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition!
It was on this date in 1933 that the Twenty-First Ammendment went into effect, ending the Eighteenth Ammendment, which was passed in 1919. The Prohibition Era in American was an interesting time. It gave rise to speakies, flappers and the jazz, women going out to drink and smugglers and gangsters. What is really interesting is that when Prohibition ended, it was actually more difficult for some to get alcohol than it was duirng Prohibition.
It also turned a sleepy town on the Mexican border into a land of debauchery, a reputation it still has to this day.
PubClub really dove into it all this year and researched how Prohibition shaped today’s nightlife in the U.S. (more signficantly that you may realize) and where Southern Californians and celebrities of the day went to escape Prohibition, a place and time that also gave rise to the Ceasers salad.
• How The End Of Prohibition Helped Shape U.S. Nightlife, Bars & Liquor Sales (pubclub.com)
• How Prohibition Helped Tijuana Become A Nightlife Boomtown – PubClub
The World’s Top Holiday Events
This is an awesome time for PubClubbers around the world. We have all the hottest and most fun events with dates and deets. They include Hyde Park Winter Wonderland in London, the Kerstbierfestival beer festival in Belgium, boat parades in Newport Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, and a really cool event in Zurch known as Lichterschwimmen.
• Top Worldwide Holiday Events 2023 Dates, Locations & Descriptions (pubclub.com)
12 Bars Of Christmas Is This Friday
Okay South Bay peeps. One of the most anticipated weekends of the year is upon us and it starts with the traditional 12 Bars of Christmas and Toy Drive pub crawl. The other events are the King Harbor Holiday Boat Parade on Saturday and of course the spectacular Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks (see below for more).
But first things first, right!? PubClub has all the deets you need to know about the 12 Bars pub crawl, including the bars and drink specials. The fine folks who run it don’t finalize all the bars untl Thursday but that doesn’t matter because the below link contains the most important thing you need to know about it.
• 12 Bars of Christmas Hermosa Beach 2023 Date, Bar Schedule & Drink Specials (pubclub.com)
Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks Are This Sunday
Along with Smackfest, this is one of the two biggest events of the year in the South Bay Beach Cities. You all know the drill but just in case here’s a look:
• Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks Show 2023 Date & Full Schedule (pubclub.com)
San Diego’s Pop-up Christmas Bar
Okay this is waaaaay cool. Christmas lights and Christmas trees everywhere. Huge holiday murals on the wall, boxes wrapped up like packages, Christmas movies playing on the TVs and holiday music from a DJ.
It’s a a pop-up Christmas bar in San Diego and PubClub takes you inside of it with this link!
• Take A Look Inside San Diego’s Festive And Fun Christmas Bar, Xmas (pubclub.com)
The Holidays In San Diego Really Put One In The Holidays Spirit
From our blogger: The Christmas bar, Little Italy and an incredible event in Balboa Park makes it easy to get into the Christmas spirit in San Diego.
• How I Have Managed To Get In The Christmas Spirit In Warm-Weather San Diego (pubclub.com)
Christmas In Manhattan Beach Video
Check out this video a few of us did a few years ago about what Christmas is like in Mahattan Beach! As you can see, it’s not like Christmas anywhere else in the world.
• Christmas In Manhattan Beach, CA – YouTube
KISS Avatar Concerts
If you’re not seen the KISS avatar band, which will soon be giving concerts, we have a video of it from the hot rockers. Last weekend they played their last concerts in person at Madison Square Garden. The video is on the PubClub home page.
That’s it for the PubClub.com Party Report. For this and more go to PubClub.com, where people go to party for the holidays and throughout the year!
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