1920 prohibition

🍸✨ Step back into the roaring 1920s with a throwback to the speakeasy bars! Hidden behind unmarked doors, these secret spots were the heart of nightlife during Prohibition. Let's toast to history and the timeless charm of classic cocktails! #ThrowbackThursday #MAYAiCEO

It wasn’t just speakeasies, everyone had clever ways to get their booze during Prohibition. Check these out: http://www.ancientfaces.com/article/those-lazy-hazy-crazy-days-of-prohibition/32?tid=pin16.03.31

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The prohibiting of alcohol manufacture, sale, and use in the United States occurred over a 13-year period from 1920 to 1933. This period became known as the Prohibition Era, and it had a profound impact on society. In fact, the …

Stick ‘em up!: A cop with a gun. Watching too many Jimmy Cagney movies as a child made me think a gangster’s life as a possible career option. I could picture myself running a numbers racket, or selling moonshine, riding the running board while blasting the competition. Even the gangsters’ names were exotic: Al Capone, Bugsy Moran, John Dillinger, Tony Accardo. Then I turned six—discovered soccer and the fancy footwork of Jimmy “Jinky” Johnstone and Harry Hood which made me think playing for…

Ken Burns latest PBS series, Prohibition, examines how a ban on alcohol in an alcohol-loving society ever came to be passed in the first place, and how its enforcement made it inevitable that it could not stand.

The chronology of major events in the history of temperance and prohibition: major people and milestones as temperance turned to prohibition.