"Modern readers in the grip of F. Scott Fitzgerald's prose may not recognize the meaning of Tom Buchanan's insight, but Fitzgerald knew his contemporaries would understand. In 1925, when 'The Great Gatsby' was published, the meaning of 'drugstores' was as clear as gin: Those were the places you went to get medically prescribed alcohol, a legally acceptable source of liquor during all 13 years of Prohibition.
"Sound familiar? To any modern Californian, of course it does."
Daniel Okrent in the Los Angeles Times recalls a loophole during Prohibition.
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