Alcohol consumption was a federal crime between 1919 and 1933. The year Jack appears to have photographed for the last scene (1921), and the year President Warren G. Harding (in the book) ordered a case of Coors Beer from the bar (1922) would have occurred during Prohibition. Alcohol consumption was never a federal crime in the US. The Volstead Act prohibited "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors". Consumption was never a crime, only a myth. Also, in the photograph, not one person is holding a drink. Indeed, one may even assume that liquors were never purchased at the Overlook during these years, but may have been included as a sort of part of membership, a type of end-around used even today in dry counties. After all, Lloyd clearly informs Jack that his "money is no good here."

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