Tony Frugni, Carbon County, Utah, Carbon County oral history project, Nos. 22 to 24, February 17, 1973

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TONY FRUGNI #3 girl out and you take her to an ice cream parlor and that was good and maybe they haven't got a ---?--­sometime, like drink and he goes to dinner before Prohibition and I said Prohibition you had to ---?--­in your pocket, you couldn't trust nobody. Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three you know, you had to have money in your pocket or nobody would look at you, you had to have money in your pocket and you pick up anybody. You go for a date, you go anyplace. It hurt a lot of people, a lot of girls because they was not drinking before, is that right? That is true, they put the pint in their pocket and pick up any girl and they give them a drink and they take them out and it didn't help the country at all. That is one of the biggest reasons that I think it hurt the people growing up, you know, to become a drunkard. I said before they had Prohibition people don't look for it but now there's a big kick if you ever got it because it is against the law and you are lucky to get it and you make a pig out of yourself, like they do now in Utah, in Utah is stupid state they got so many laws, if you ever want to buy a bottle what will happen? Some of these Mormon women don't 1 ike to see their husband drink, I know, so they got to drink the bottle there before they go 78