The Original Jersey Shore

摘要

In atlantic city, n.j., a group of localrnbigwigs is celebrating a federal economic stimulus. The year is 1920; the coming boon is Prohibition, which will make those able to effect the illegal sale of alcohol-like the elected officials at this banquet-very rich. As musicians in blackface lead a mock funeral processionrnfor John Barleycorn outside, Enoch "Nu-cky" Thompson, treasurer of Atlantic City, toasts the reformers who are about to raise the price of liquor twentyfold: "To those beautiful, ignorant bastards!"