Men & women had queued up outside the new bars, but when they got inside, they seemed ill at ease. It was plain that in sedate Toronto, where last week, for the first time in 31 years,* it became legal to drink hard liquor in public, the people had forgotten how it was done.
Four hotels, two restaurants and one nightclub that were lucky enough to get licenses the first week (later there would be others, in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario) had tried hard to make the atmosphere right. The Barclay Hotel...
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