Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at The Grasshopper bar in Long Beach. Some participants dress in cocktail or vintage attire, but it is not required. No RSVP necessary.

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at The Wolves in the 1906 John Parkinson designed Alexandria Hotel, once the most extravagant hotel in the city (it cost a whopping $2 million to build) and popular with the silent film stars of the day. The Wolves is a Belle Époque style bar with Parisienne flair. Cocktails feature a lot of house-made ingredients and the food blends French and American cuisine. Some participants dress in cocktail or vintage attire, but it is not required. No RSVP necessary.

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at the historic Biltmore Hotel, a Cocktails in Historic Places® holiday tradition. Many members dress in cocktail attire, but it is not required. RSVP is required this year.

SOLD OUT We are delighted to return to the RMS Queen Mary for Cocktails in the Queens Salon! The evening will include dancing to a live band playing music of the Art Deco era.

Performing in the Queen’s Salon is JIM ZIEGLER’S SWINGSATIONS QUINTET!

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at The Wolves in the 1906 John Parkinson designed Alexandria Hotel, once the most extravagant hotel in the city (it cost a whopping $2 million to build) and popular with the silent film stars of the day. The Wolves is a Belle Époque style bar with Parisienne flair. Cocktails feature a lot of house-made ingredients and the food blends French and American cuisine. Some participants dress in cocktail or vintage attire, but it is not required. No RSVP necessary.

For those coming to Catalina Island the night before the Avalon Ball, join us on a big cocktail crawl around Avalon. Come out to play at a variety of the island’s watering holes!

Join us for an ice cream social at the Art Deco Silberberg Building to celebrate its new Historic Cultural Monument designation! What better way to celebrate, than to visit the businesses in this vintage retail space. It just so happens that the Silberberg Building on Beverly Boulevard at Poinsettia houses a gelato parlor, Gelato and Angels! An ice cream parlor in an Art Deco building is the perfect place to order a "frozen fountain" treat!

Ciao! Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at Miceli’s, the oldest Italian restaurant in Hollywood! We’ll enjoy the Sunday night live piano music accompanying Miceli’s famous singing waiters! Come for the cocktails, stay for the homemade Italian cuisine. Some participants dress in cocktail or vintage attire, but it is not required. No RSVP necessary.

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at The Blind Donkey in Long Beach, located in a former speakeasy space in the the historic Broadlind Hotel. Cocktails in Historic Places® is an Art Deco Society of Los Angeles meetup that takes place every other month in a different bar/restaurant in a historic building. Some participants dress in cocktail or vintage attire, but it is not required. No RSVP necessary.

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails at the historic Biltmore Hotel, a Cocktails in Historic Places® holiday tradition. Many members dress in cocktail attire, but it is not required. No RSVP required.

Hoot mon! Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails in celebration of the centennial of this beloved iconic Scottish restaurant, the oldest in Los Angeles to be operated by the same family in the same location.

Vintage attire admired, but not required.

Join us for a casual, no-host get together at a restaurant bar in a historic building. In August we visit the 1933 Group’s Idle Hour in North Hollywood.

Vintage attire admired, but not required.

Join us for a casual, no-host get together at a restaurant bar in a historic building. This month we visit La Grande Orange Cafe in Pasadena.

Vintage attire admired, but not required.

Join your fellow Deco-philes for a mellow, low-key gathering the day after the ball at the historic Catalina Country Club for Cocktails and spontaneous dancing between the tables.

For those on the island the evening before the Avalon Ball, there will be plenty to do on Friday night.

In the past there were just too many of us for any one Avalon bar to accommodate, so this year we suggest sampling several of the island's watering holes in a "crawl."

Join us for a casual, no-host get together at a restaurant bar in a historic building. This month we visit Tom Bergin’s pub.

Vintage attire admired, but not required.

Join the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for no-host cocktails in an open air environment at the All Season Brewing Company, located in the historic Streamline Moderne Firestone Tire Building on La Brea, constructed in 1937 by engineer R.E. Ward. The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles successfully campaigned to Landmark the building in 2012 and is excited to patronize a business in this glorious adaptive reuse project.

On December 5th, we celebrate the 88th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in America. We are excited to welcome back authors Anne Peck-Davis and Diane Lapis to the virtual stage and continue our vintage journey across America. The duo’s program will feature unique cocktail lounges, hotel bars, and the exotic venues that defined the period after Prohibition’s repeal.

FDR and the Repeal of Prohibition: Art Deco Cocktail Lounges of the Post-Prohibition Years examines FDR’s role in repeal, ushering in a new era in cocktail culture.

A members only cocktail class that takes its inspiration from The Biltmore Hotel which opened in 1923! Participants will enjoy a lesson on each of The Biltmore’s cocktails from the 1930's and 4 mini cocktails with drink cards for each recipe. At the end of the class, each guest will receive a full cocktail of their choosing from the four that were discussed.

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. Cocktail historian Luis Rodriguez takes us on a journey through Paris to meet up with everyone from Ernest Hemingway to Salvador Dali.

We’re excited to welcome authors Diane Lapis and Anne Peck Davis to the virtual stage to escort us on a unique vintage journey across the United States - stopping along the way for a cocktail or two! This talk is based on their book Cocktails Across America.

Join Spirits Advisors, Beth and James Silverman, two of the original bartenders fortunate to open the famed Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge in Disney’s CA Adventure as they share moments in history from the original Los Angeles Carthay Theatre, while crafting cocktails inspired by the modern culinary destination spot.

In honor of Valentine's Day, we're batching up "end of the prohibition era" martinis with those witty, debonair husband and wife detectives Nick and Nora Charles of THE THIN MAN fame. Their love, like their drinking, knew no bounds! Join us for a virtual cocktail party and literary/film salon. This event is free, but you must RSVP. Join our mailing list to receive an invitation.