From the 1500s through 1930 or so, in any place you could see working men, you could see drunk ones.
From 1930 through 1970, it was less common but just as tolerated.
MADD did what Prohibition could not.
From 1930 through 1970, it was less common but just as tolerated.
MADD did what Prohibition could not.
These weren’t what you picture when someone says “perpetually drunk and homeless”, but I think a lot of Mercedes were assembled by workers with a perpetual low-level of alcohol on-board.