Through The Years
1. World War I and The Great Depression:
- The indulgent menus shrink and the zodiac depiction in the minutes was
redesigned to properly represent the discovered solar system.
- Prohibition was entirely ignored and J.P. Morgan Jr.'s cellar became the source of booze.
- Edith Wharton published the original
Page Six,
The Age of Innocence shedding light to the public about the practices of New York Society.
See Frank Sturgis's (President of the NYSE) rant below:
"Brother Cancer slashed the book with sabre cuts of Saxon speech, declaring that New York society in the '70's was refined, intelligent and self-respecting and that the authoress did no credit to herself in attempting to belittle or disparage such a society in which members of her own family took leading parts."
2. The minutes end in 1928 and The Zodiac Club almost disappears from the New York Social landscape.
3. In 1987, Stephen Birmingham published
America's Secret Aristocracy claiming that J.P. Morgan founded the Zodiac Club.
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