December 15, 2025
Tag: Post Prohibition NIghtspots
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The Dazzling Nightspots of Post-Prohibition America
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This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of America’s journey into the dark, dry years of Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified on January 16th, 1919, forbid the production, sale and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” but was ineffective in curtailing the consumption of alcohol, beer, and wine in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson vetoed the…
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December 12, 2023 4 Comments
Who could possibly think that a woman would look good in a barrel? It’s a preposterous idea, but comics have put pretty girls in barrels to sell products and even protest taxes. Then there is the story of Annie Taylor. What she did in a barrel was no laughing matter.