The Prohibition era has almost totally ended at the Magic Kingdom.
Much to its founder's dismay, every sit-down restaurant in the original Disney World theme park in Orlando is now serving booze.
Actually, we don't know for sure how Walt Disney would feel. He was very concerned about rowdies boozing it up at his park, but his views might have changed were he still with us at age 116.
Maybe he would order the $9.50 Beso del Sol Sangria at Cinderella's Royal Table. Until a few days ago, that was one of three alcohol-free restaurants left at the Magic Kingdom.
Then Disney announced that the Plaza Restaurant, the Crystal Palace and Cinderella's Royal Table would start offering beer and wine. They were the last restaurants where teetotaler families could dine in a booze-free atmosphere.
Somewhere (perhaps under Cinderella Castle) the man who started it all is doing 360s.
"No liquor, no beer, nothing. Because that brings in a rowdy element. That brings people that we don't want, and I feel they don't need it."
That's what he told the Saturday Evening Post in 1956, a year after Disneyland opened.
