On Friday, June 25, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles invites you to explore the bars, cabarets, dance halls, and – most especially – the cocktails of Paris during Les Anneés Folles (“the crazy years”). Paris in the 1920s is where everyone met and where everything was happening. The Hemingways and Fitzgeralds gathered for drinks at Harry’s New York Bar and might go from there on a jaunt up to Montmartre – collecting Gerald and Sara Murphy along the way – to listen to Josephine Baker (La Bakair) and enjoy champagne cocktails. Over glasses of Pernod at Le Dome we might find Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí lamenting that they can’t get their hands on the “real stuff” – absinthe – and how they might depict on film, slicing a human eye with a razorblade. Drop in to Au Lapin Agile for their signature Brandy with Cherries where we might run into Pablo Picasso and listen while “a guitarist twangs; a harpist strums; another sings jolly songs in which everyone joins – all in French.”

1920s Paris was a cross-section of western civilization with something to please everyone. Dubbed The Cocktail Epoch, it was a time when society itself was a cocktail, “a bright mixture…[blending] people of all tastes and classes.” Join us for a night not to be missed as cocktail historian Luis Rodriguez leads us on a drinking tour of La Ville–Lumière, while along the way we are entertained by the melodious voice of Jeudi the Vintage-Voiced Chanteuse, and enthralled by the moving presentations of Paris native and dance historian, Walter Nelson.

This is a virtual event. It is free to members and $10 for non-members.