Sloppy Joe's, a Key West fixture that was beloved by Papa Hemingway, had its beginning just four years prior, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
At the time of this short, many Americans still lived on a rural setting, so the background artwork depictions of a farm house with a cellar would have been a familiar sight. Everything is beautifully rendered, as befits the golden age of animation, down to the bricks, drain pipes, and the latest newfangled backyard hose.