Hooray! Prohibition is Repealed ... 73 years ago.
Even with all of the trivia stuck in my head, I managed to flush the date for the end of prohibition: December 5th, 1933. The end of a 14 year dry spell for the United States. I found a little quote that I think portrays the attitude of Americans towards their new freedom: In Milwaukee, beer sales in one month exceed $30 million.
I think I'll join my fellow Americans in their celebration of the 21st Amendment which repealed Prohibition with a cold beer and a hope that we don't get any more crazy ideas like that again!!
special thanks to Wayne State University for this Prohibition Raid photo
posted by Saucy Joe Sullivan | 2:21 PM
2 Comments:
I remember tales of our Granfather making bath tub gin during Prohibition. I too celebrated the anniversary by having one or two cold beers last night!
Don't you know we'd all have our own recipes for bathtub gin if we were living back during Prohibition! I'd probably have a newsletter that I'd print out of my press out in the shed.
Probably would need a new name! Bathtub Joe's? Think I'll have another drink and think about it!
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