If you’ve read much about history, you can always enjoy a chuckle at the expense of contemporaries who think they invented bad behavior.
Americans might have flocked to Paris in the ’20s, but the real action was in Berlin — the modern Babylon where every night felt like New Year’s Eve and any pleasure could be obtained for a price. In fact, if ever a historical era blurred into one continuous, manic party, it was Berlin in the Weimar years… Visitors from the Prohibition-bound U.S. were agape at the craze for “American cocktails.” But few were content with an alcohol buzz when high-grade opium balls, morphine, and cocaine were readily available from street dealers or even waitresses, such as the sultry Argentine girls at the Rio Rita tango bar.
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