Repeal Day - Ending Prohibition

[@Jay-ln1co]

Prohibition worked about as well as the war on drugs.

[@Vykk_Draygo]

Not really a perfect analogy. Most people drink, or have drank. It is a normal part of everyday social life, and meals. Drugs not so much. Efficacy of laws and enforcement aside, they aren't quite the same.

[@dbmail545]

@@Vykk_Draygo I think it is a perfect analogy. Makes ordinary people criminal and makes criminals rich. I suspect that you have no idea how many of your acquaintances smoke marijuana. I have smoked for 50 years and still get surprised.

[@maddyg3208]

@@dbmail545 The fact that you're surprised about people you know smoking cannabis actually shows the effect of banning cannabis and that prohibition had a different effect than contemporary drug laws.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

And now the president-"elect" wants to ban guns.

[@jeffevans9836]

@@grizzlygrizzle proof ?

[@tolfan4438]

I'm 56 years old my grandmother was always proud to tell us that my grandfather made the best beer. She said when the prohibition agents came around they never broke his barrels they took them. She also said they never busted up his brewing equipment too bad they more or less just took it apart so he could put it back together. Grandpa was an immigrant learn the craft in Germany so it's a very believable story

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

Cheers to your Grandparents and to your lineage! Excellent story. God Bless America and God Bless the World.

[@tolfan4438]

@@JesusIsKingAndSavior thank you for your reply. Back in those days Tammy great you needed a sponsor someone in America that said I'll take care of those persons until they get on their feet. It made for a good work ethic that's what made our Country Strong.

[@brianwestberry9117]

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman

[@sar4x474]

That’s funny right thar!

[@infernalchaos1066]

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy." - Frank Sinatra

[@emilyadams3228]

If you call someone an alcoholic, you'd better have Proof. Emily Adams

[@simongleaden2864]

Indeed. Work is the curse of the drinking class.

[@fredhannum3573]

I inspected a home in approx 2010 near the Griffith park Observatory, and the owner had just discovered a speak easy (hidden bar) in his basement. It had a 30 ft. Long bar with about 10 booths. What a find in his own home!

[@kristoffermangila]

Did he preserved that speakeasy?

[@Gail1Marie]

One of our friends bought a home in Minneapolis that had been unoccupied since the late 1920s or early 1930s. (This was in the 1960s.) They found a still in the basement, flapper dresses in the closets, and a host of other interesting items. Evidently the previous owners had just walked away from the property, and no one had ever cleaned it out. They restored the Victorian-age house and lived in it for many years.

[@rachelkristine4669]

Awesome! Sounds like a fun discovery! 🤣😂

[@salsaul4288]

Off topic, but congrats on 900k man, you deserve it!

[@amills1682]

Oh yea

[@gus473]

Will THG hit 1,000,000 in 2020...? 🤔⏳🤞

[@michaelfarnstrom987]

I liked this one. More non military history please.

[@johnnyliminal8032]

@@gus473 I doubt Dominion does small jobs like that, so we need to get people thinking about history. Lots of people thinking about it would hopefully mean more attention to THG.All we need is to cause a hashtag to go viral. I would suggest #history, due to just plain history being misused and ignored in our present political charades. It might turn the election. I hope so too. 8D

[@derekfelska4001]

I was literally talking about this to my class today. My wife's father was by his own words a 'repeal baby' as his birthday was virtually 9 months to the day to the repeal of Prohibition. Happy Days Are Here Again indeed! Great show as usual!

[@longhairbear]

I was a bartender in the mid 1970's until my retirement. The man who taught me how to tend bar worked thru prohibition, and often called the bars gin mills. Where we worked was the first bar built, and opened after prohibition in Salem MA. The bar, and back bar was deliciously art deco, mirrors etc.

[@popuptarget7386]

There is always a bunch of people who believe they have a right to interfere in your life. They just switch targets from time to time.

[@TheSticlizard]

They just moved the interference from booze to the 2nd Amendment.

[@robertbates2987]

the lessons of the 18th are vast. unfortunately few of our bloviating lawmakers today seem unable (or unwilling) to learn that using words like 'ban' in a law will almost always create more far more problems than they solve. oh well, petty dictators have always reveled in keeping people down. (I bet THG could compile a much larger list than I could) It's just a shame that so many Governors today seem to have failed to learn anything from this period. thank you, for your entertaining snippets, you are engaging and professional and should be proud of your channel.

[@robertbates2987]

@@new-lviv I like that saying

[@orbyfan]

Shouldn't the Mob Museum be located on Capitol Hill in Washington?

[@shawnr771]

No that is still a functioning exhibit.

[@mh53j]

@@shawnr771 indeed! New exhibits opening on a daily basis!

[@craffte]

@@shawnr771 LoL!

[@craffte]

Ha! Great comment!

[@Don_Rodrigo44]

Wow so funny last time I heard this one I fell off my dinosaur

[@lelandframe1029]

My Dad told me about during the Depression, his family needed money--so my grandfather made and sold Bathtub Gin--with the blessings of the county Sherriff--who would come over every Saturday night for a private party! Kansas remained dry until the 1960's.(In fact, there are still a few counties in Western Kansas that are still dry!) When my Dad was old enough, he drove a truck for a living. (And that's just about ALL he did for a living!) During the 50's, whenever he had a run into Missouri, he would bring back a few cases of beer for his brothers and Grandpa. (Dad did not drink, himself. In fact, our family were, and still are, teetotalers!) But for some reason--Dad's favorite movie was "Smokey And The Bandit"! 😉

[@emergingloki]

"They say they are going to repeal prohibition; what will you do then?" "Think I'll have a drink" Last line, The Untouchables.

[@josemoreno3334]

Good movie. Great line.

[@dodden1]

The man at the store told my mother and her younger sister one day that if they found any bottles, he would give them a nickle each. One day they found a whole pile of bottles and loaded up their wagon and brought them over, thinking they would be rich. When they got there, the man told them that Prohibition was over and he didn't need the bottles anymore. In 1933 she would have been 9 and her sister 6.

[@alexanderstrickland9036]

That was a cool story. Thank you.

[@internetwonderbuilder4741]

From the stories I've heard it sounds like just about everyone kept on drinking during prohibition.

[@phredphlintstone6455]

@@internetwonderbuilder4741 mostly. Some only used it "medicinally"

[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

I have in my possession a "Prescriptions Forms for Medical Liquor" book of prescriptions, issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. The first prescription in it was November 22, 1932. It lists the name and address of the "patient", the type and amount of the liquor prescribed, and the name and address of the prescribing doctor, all on the receipt part of the book. It has 100 prescriptions in the book, each with a carbon copy of the prescription. There are 22 prescriptions filled with the originals and the carbon copy duplicate removed. A further three originals are missing, I assume from a collector. The pharmacy was in the New Orleans area, as all of the names have New Orleans addresses. All of the prescriptions given are listed as "Whiskey, Q", which I assume means Quart. I have NO idea of it's value.

[@MrRar66]

Thanks

[@earlystrings1]

I went to college in a small Ohio town that was still dry in the 1970s. There was a liquor store, much frequented by us students, one inch over the town line. The town finally went wet in the 1980s, a half century after the general repeal.

[@BELCAN57]

I've been to the "Mob Museum" in Las Vegas, it's definitely a "must see" spot if you're in town.

[@danoneill2846]

The next stop in L V >>> thesourcenv.com/dispensary-menu/

[@Louis_Davout]

Their cinnamon flavored "home brew" is pretty tasty!

[@jimh3588]

I personally don't drink alcoholic beverages but will defend with my life your right to do so! Enjoy.

[@chuckh5999]

I thought the mob museum was centred in the White House.

[@BELCAN57]

@@chuckh5999 😆😆😆😆

[@benkrug82]

This channel is awesome. Very entertaining, and I actually learn stuff! Thanks THG!

[@vespelian5769]

This nicely clarifies the reasoning behind prohibition. When my great grandfather came to New York in 1929, armed with a letter of introduction from William Randolph Hurst, he came specifically in search of speakeasies to write about in his newspaper column. In his book The American Ilusion 1929, he was surprised to find New Jersey operating as usual as though the Volstadt act did not exist. He travelled extensively throughout America - meeting Hurst and playing table tennis with him - and getting his book out just before the Wall Street crash.

[@Gail1Marie]

Hearst.

[@jetsons101]

I'm a strong support of personal choice, I don't drink alcohol or use drugs. I do have friends that drink, some more than others BUT we still get along and are friends. I don't drink just because I want to be in full control of my life at all times. If you do drink just don't drive or anything else that might cause harm to yourself or others, now where's my Henry Weinhard's Gourmet ROOT BEER. Thanks History Guy for another great video...

[@JustAManFromThePast]

A great example of treating tangential effects instead of causes and blaming substances instead of man.

[@BeingFireRetardant]

Perhaps we should make governmental corruption, overreach, and extralegal activities illegal as well.

[@patrick8116]

Just like the gun control movement.

[@BHuang92]

To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems! - Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment, The Simpsons

[@apo18llo]

mmm...organized crime

[@p.w.5199]

The beer baron!

[@morganrobinson8042]

@@apo18llo Only really an relevant when its illegal. Bootlegging isn't profitable if you can buy beer at the corner store legally, so organized crime would be no more or less involved with it as any other legal commodity.

[@billbolton]

@@morganrobinson8042 also some jurisdictions around the world have high taxes on alcohol to discourage its use, making it profitable for organized crime.

[@tygrkhat4087]

@@billbolton In the novel MASH, Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest are driving to the 4077th when Duke tells Hawkeye he has some liquor with him. Hawk then askes if it's real or did he make it himself. Duke, a Georgian, says he bought it from the Yankee government and from where he comes from, it's real if you make it yourself.

[@elviejodelmar2795]

Between 1971 and 1973, I was an instructor in the Mountain Ranger Camp in Dahlonega Georgia, which is located in Lumpkin County. Lumpkin County was a completely dry county. back then and the moonshiners liked it that way. I was riding with an NCO on one of the backroads when I spotted the remnants of a trailer. I asked sarge about it and he answered, that it used to be the trailer of a new deputy sheriff who had come down hard on the moonshiners. So, one night when he was on duty (they didn't want to kill him, just send a friendly message), somebody put a box of dynamite under his trailer and blew it up. They went looking for someone who was suddenly deaf, 'cause the fool only ran out about a 100 feet of wire -- way short of what was needed for that amount of explosives.

[@surinfarmwest6645]

Cheers!

[@kylebarton778]

A shot to another wonderful episode of history that deserves to be remembered.

[@jamesbrown4092]

Now I have Spike Jones' "Cocktails for Two" stuck in my head.

[@maon7565]

I always enjoy your work, thanks.

[@mvl9591]

There are still “Dry towns “ in New Jersey. Thank you for your videos.

[@tygrkhat4087]

IIRC, the county where Lynchburg, TN is located is a dry county. The only thing you can sample at the Jack Daniel's Distillery is the famed Lynchburg Lemonade. Although you are encouraged to sample Jack Daniel's where it legal to do so.

[@georgemckenna462]

THG: It's 5 o'clock somewhere and it's Friday; Yes Indeed.

[@HM2SGT]

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[@marsoz_]

Crazy how often 10am on a Monday is actually 5pm on a Friday

[@georgemckenna462]

@@marsoz_ It may be time to consider making friends with Bill W.

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

A good friend of mine actually works for Coors Ceramics, and I had always wondered if there was a connection to the other, better known, Coors. And now I know and it makes perfect sense too! Thanks History Guy!

[@snapdragon6601]

I know the Coors brewery is in Golden, Colorado. Not too far from where I grew up. If the Ceramics place your friend works at is somewhere near there it's certainly possible. 🙂

[@dodden1]

My mother and her family lived upstairs of her grandmother, who was a teetotaler and shaker. Her father use to make beer in a washing machine. One time he didn't make the beer right and the caps blew off the bottles and the foam ran down. Grandmother asked what the noise was, he said that he tipped a chair over.

[@dbmail545]

Made a lot of batches of beer and that happens. Kick the mixture a tad "hot" while bottling ( too much sugar) or too warm a place for the bottles to sit and "carbonate" and this happens. The reason I don't brew any more is the lack of climate control where I live now. I'd be losing half my batches.

[@BuzzinVideography]

Thank you for never let us forget

[@patricklilly2520]

Only one word needs to be said about this work, SPECTACULAR!!! Great job! Thanx for the Vid...

[@hobgoblinhollow4966]

Couldn't drink the water we had to drink beer. Again, can't drink tap water or the plastic bottles water, need more beer

[@agesflow6815]

I understand.

[@robertwoodliff2536]

Is this what Flint was up to?

[@KevinSmith-dx6xq]

It took humans a long time to learn not to shit in their drinking water. Beer, wine and hard cider mostly wouldn't kill you.

[@johnharris1636]

That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer…. Check out A Series from Mike Rowe “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!

[@evensgrey]

@@johnharris1636 I have heard this explanation for why the Mayflower stopped at that particular location. (It was also a pretty good place for the settlers, as there was a recently abandoned native town site and attendant farmed land, thanks to a recently, and accidentally, introduced European epidemic, but those wee a dime a dozen all along the eastern seaboard of what is now the United States. for this same reason.)

[@williamhill7312]

Great video, I went to the Mob Museum in Downtown Vegas, I always stay at the El Cortez, great Hotel / Casino once owned by Bugsy Segal, the restaurant is called Segal's. Great Hotel 2 blocks from the Mob Museum and cheaper than the Strip Hotels by far, NO Resort Fee! What is cool is they have some of the old Slot Machines that use quarters, check it out.

[@samrussell9264]

Thank you for continuing to show the World that Americans still respect Facts... And as a Fellow History Addict... Please keep it up!

[@claudeanmankin1539]

My dear sweet husband managed to show me how to watch at 90% speed. Dyslexic, love your videos, and now, I don't have to complain you are still talking too fast for me to comprehend. I certainly don't mind watching you for 10% longer. Thank you!

[@ChiefMac59]

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. " - Ogden Nash

[@mikemaricle9941]

The Northside Gentlemen's Club: Liquor in the front. Poker in the rear.

[@zak-a-roo264]

He summered near me in the secluded beach of a small one cop farm town that had the mansions of the Bells ,Studebakers ,Rockwells etc all lined up on th NH coast , they drank like protected fish, the local town cops were totally in on it.

[@DeepOwl1073]

"Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker. Suicide is slow with liquor." -Ozzy Osbourne 1980 \m/

[@jdinhuntsvilleal4514]

I love Ogden Nash, but to REALLY understand that poem you HAVE to know the title: "Reflections on Ice Breaking". (NOTE TO MILLENNIALS: "Ice Breaking" refers to when a man "breaks the ice" with a woman, meaning to make a woman he has not met before feel relaxed with him.)

[@Man-cv5ws]

I thought Willy Wonka said that pal.

[@laurakuhn8743]

Thank you for explaining "T Totaler " because for all my life I have thought it was Tea totaler.

[@maddyg3208]

I thought it was Totaller with a capital "T".

[@howtubeable]

I wish he had spent more time explaining "T Totaler." I thought it was "tea" too.

[@james-p]

These days it's written as "teetotaler."

[@laurakuhn8743]

@@james-p thank you. I still think of it at Tea-Totaler. LOL. Hard to change in my head.

[@lizj5740]

Wikipedia (Teetotalism) explains the etymology of the term: "at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of total; the tee- is presumably a reduplication of the first letter of total, much as contemporary idiom today might say 'total with a capital T'."

[@sandybarnes887]

I raise a toast 🍷 to your excellent research and report. 🍺

[@billrogers6256]

Cheers! Prof.

[@linnharamis1496]

Great segment- thank you!👍

[@ThatSchmoGuy]

December 4th 2020: the United States House of Representatives will take up a vote on the MORE Act, which would officially decriminalize cannabis and clear the way to erase nonviolent federal marijuana convictions. What a coincidence!

[@tncorgi92]

Except that McConnell will make sure it dies in the Senate.

[@ThatSchmoGuy]

Time can only tell.

[@trishthehomesteader9873]

I'll be sure to celebrate the day with a glass of wine this evening. 🍷 Thanks, THG!💜

[@richardmourdock2719]

The important lesson here is that when government goes so far as to make ordinary private acts illegal, it makes criminals of its own citizenry.....And the newly defined criminals will not long remain silent or apathetic. And let us not forget, in the early 20th Century example the government's action led to the pirating of alcohol, but then again, don't all good stories...

[@blackstone777]

Fun fact: George Remus would hijack his own whiskey shipments, collect the insurance money, and sell the whiskey on the black market.

[@frogstomp427]

That's the American way, right there.

[@RCAvhstape]

Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.

[@motherhenn8850]

Ahh, George Remus - from my neck of the woods.

[@grimreaper6557]

Thank you for this aweome look at a forgotten piece of history

[@jeffjames4064]

PLEASE, when you drink, drink responsibly and recap the bottle to avoid evaporation. Remember , every drop is precious.

[@charlesnolan7602]

I was born in 1955, 20 shopping days before Christmas! December 5th!

[@thedungeondelver]

That Coors ceramic was used in Project Pluto, which was a nuclear-powered cruise missile designed to stay aloft for weeks or even months during and after a nuclear war, flying over and dropping 1mt warheads on enemy targets, all the while moving at Mach 3+. The engine needed to function at extremely high temperature for months (potentially); the fuel elements were clad in high grade ceramic to prevent their melting, and the Adolph Coors company produced the ceramic cladding for the lone example of the engine that was produced (and successfully stand-tested).

[@12gageshot]

We should all learn from this. If someone prohibits it, it will not work.

[@fredcrook8228]

Thank you, THG, for posting this on the 4th so I can start celebrating Repeal Day early. Cheers!

[@scuppersthesailordog]

The father of a friend told me that as a little boy in Belleville, Ontario, he would often watch beautiful commuter-style launches slide down the river from the Corby Distillery, and out toward Lake Ontario, Shortly after they cleared the river mouth, the rumble of their engines would cease as the exhaust was directed underwater and the nav lights would go out. No one asked where they were going or what they were carrying.

[@patrickdurham8393]

I've been "bootlegging" for years to friends of mine in dry southern counties of Kentucky. Their low taxes on tobacco products made for good trade with Tennessee.

[@laserbeam002]

My father made whiskey back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s and a couple times when I was a kid in the 70s. My uncle, my mothers brother, served 2 years on the county chain gang for making and hauling whiskey. He said it was actually the easiest 2 years of his life. Nothing like the hollywood movies.

[@HM2SGT]

I remember drinking near beer when I was a youth. Kingsbury and O'Doul's were prevalent at those Dungeons & Dragons games!😸

[@MrDmitriRavenoff]

I remember drinking an O'Doul's at a country club at 17. They would serve me because it was non-alcoholic. That lasted until some person saw a "kid" drinking a "real beer" and made a fuss. Turns out it has a tiny percentage and fell into some vague area. They stopped. Just as well.

[@praack4563]

i remember buying cases of 3.2 beer at 16 in South Dakota and at 18 have my first drink in a bar with real alcohol.....

[@alexanderstrickland9036]

I worked at a restaurant on a pier in lower alabama when I was in highschool. A little old lady came in one day and ordered a o’douls saying ‘I’ve always been a lightweight but I’m getting drunk tonight’. Cracked me up

[@Paladin1873]

My home county remained dry until the early 1970s.

[@Paladin1873]

@@gooser__43 I said county, not country. I was born and raised in north Florida.

[@Paladin1873]

@@gooser__43 Well, to some visitors it probably seemed like a foreign country. Think Mayberry.

[@Silverado138]

The town I live in was the largest dry city in the state of Alabama until ten years ago. It has been a boom for the city.

[@camwinston5248]

@@Paladin1873 yes my home County was dry until almost Ten yrs ago..s.east as well

[@mikelakner5622]

Always enjoyable.

[@southronjr1570]

I grew up in a dry county in Georgia and it wasn't until 2009 that they repealed that local ordnance. The repeal was pushed heavily by a rather large influx of new residents because Atlanta finally made Monroe a suburb. Sad to see and I swore I would move the day Monroe was first called a suburb and damned if I didn't, hate see once vibrant small communities being turned into the same hell hole that anyone from California to New York would easily feel at home in.

[@williamwingo4740]

A couple of peripheral prohibition stories.... Howard Hughes was one of those who stockpiled liquor at the onset of prohibition. His father had bought out the entire stock of the Rice Hotel bar in Houston. In his book "Howard--The Amazing Mr. Hughes" (1972), Hughes executive/factotum Noah Dietrich describes his adventures moving this huge quantity of booze from Texas to California. In Al-Capone-era Chicago, the gangs hired the poor to produce alcohol on mini-stills in their tenements all over Little Italy. They gave the police a list of their still locations, and if the police found one not on the list, they busted it with full publicity. This helped cut down on competition. In return, the police gave the mob a list of participating badge numbers, and if someone not on the list tried to collect graft or cause trouble, they were turned in--or dissuaded in other ways. A classic symbiotic relationship. And in the 1960's my high-school history teacher told us about a sign he saw at a roadside restaurant in rural Alabama in the 1920's: "Near Beer Here; Real Beer Near Here." Added in edit: Prohibition also had serious public health consequences. The available black-market alcohol was often not very good quality; and it might be adulterated with wood alcohol, rubbing alcohol, etc. People also drank stuff like hair tonic and various patent medicines, and there were a lot of poisonings and deaths. Moonshine whisky was often distilled through car radiators, causing cumulative lead poisoning and kidney failure. This was a problem long after prohibition, particularly in the Southern states. I remember seeing public health posters in high school in the 1960s: "Avoid deadly moonshine whisky." Cheers.

[@Ted_E_Bear]

Interesting !!

[@jcdawg8363]

I remember as a child hearing that "when there is a vote on legalizing alcohol sales, that is the only time the Baptists and the bootleggers vote together".

[@hawtpotato90210]

Last time i was this early i was waiting on the pick up from Canada.

[@QuantumRift]

An entire episode on Prohibition and "repeal" but not ONE mention of Joseph Kennedy! Priceless!

[@jimhughes1070]

Thank you for all your work on History my brother!

[@truebluemiata]

Great synopsis of the subject. It took me nearly a lifetime of drinking to decide its not for me. Don't miss it a bit. (Well, that occasional glass of a good red...)

[@MichaelSHartman]

Good to hear you gave it up. It must have been hard.

[@TheQuickSilver101]

I almost always learn something new when I watch The History Guy. Thank you!

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

In Kentucky, Bourbon County is dry (no alcohol sale at all), while Christian County permits it. Other random weird facts. The town of Campbellsville is in Taylor county, Taylorsville is in Spenser county. Fort Knox is in Hardin county, not Knox county. Fort Campbell has a Kentucky address, even though most of the base is in Tennessee. Kentucky used to own completely it's section of the Ohio River, not Ohio or Indiana (that has been amended where they now share the river), that's why to this day there a small section in Western Indiana on the other side of the river from Kentucky that still belongs to Kentucky, Etc... There's much more weirdness if you want to delve into it.

[@human_bot_]

I found an old prohibition era liquor bottle buried in the dirt on a jobsite. It was fully intact too! It actually has raised lettering on the glass that states it is for "medicinal use only" lol.

[@heynice7761]

Congratulations on 900k subscribers The History Guy! Road to 1 Million subscribers!

[@josemoreno3334]

I raise my glass to you History Guy, Salud.

[@joelbornhoft1211]

And thank Jimmy Carter for making home brewing legal in 1978 I believe.

[@JRSofty]

I saw an image supposedly a prescription for alcohol for Winston Churchill during his visit in the US.

[@dbmail545]

@Maria Kelly if my doctor wouldn't write me one, I would find another doctor!

[@mikegehre570]

Went to the Mob Museum in November Well worth the visit

[@markrossow6303]

I have been in an abandoned speakeasy, in a Pioneer Square basement, Seattle Included a wood cloak room, a stylishly-lettered "Do Not Spit on The Floor" painted on a wall, and vaulted brickwork space under the sidewalk above (Seattle went dry earlier than national prohibition. "Republican St." near the Amazon office buildings is a remnant. The brick Georgetown brewery is where Rainier Beer began, & it was the legal One Mile from Seattle city limits. Horse racing track was nearby (now Boeing Field), plus Georgetown had establishments for indoor activities... . )

[@222foont]

Sweet tie! Killer suttle green...

[@danoneill2846]

During Prohibition , Cannabis was LEGAL , said to be a cure for Alcoholism & wife beating !! Booze makes some people mean , Cannabis makes most people peaceful & calm .

[@johnbarber4549]

It also inspired some great jazz music.

[@irajayrosen4792]

Fascinating. I have reason to suspect that my maternal grandparents ran a speakeasy in their small hotel in Utica New York. My father's family cane here in 1928. My dad told me that his mom tried to brew beer in the basement of my grandfather's butcher shop, but all the bottles exploded at one time.

[@thomasb1889]

One older uncle of mine who was quite the character ran moonshine from the stills in Oliver Wisconsin area into the Gary and New Duluth neighborhoods of Duluth Minnesota with a motorcycle-sidecar rig.

[@MM22966]

Notice that every single woman on these Temperance Committees was bag-on-the-head level....Coincidence?

[@sodoffbaldrick3038]

Alcohol would've been their best friend..remember the song, "The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time"?

[@HM2SGT]

I am proud of my home and would love to see you pay The Granite Sate some attention. Perhaps the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 and the pivotal role the president of the United States played in the negotiation Sino nipple War would be worthy of your attention.

[@eliscanfield3913]

I like the wine brick, lol. Warning: absolutely do not do this precise series of actions that'll turn it into wine.

[@txgunguy2766]

On the back of brewery produced yeast kits there would be step-by-step instructions of what NOT to do "otherwise an illegal intoxicating beverage may result".

[@ewhartiii]

Just like the explanation for what not to do to fire an anti-aircraft gun in the movie "1941"

[@txgunguy2766]

@@ewhartiii Exactly, I was thinking about that as I wrote about the yeast boxes.

[@williamwingo4740]

@@txgunguy2766 An old rime my mother passed on to me: Mama's in the kitchen, washing out the jugs; Papa's in the laundry, bottling the suds; Tommy's in the basement, checking on the hops; Sister's on the front porch, watching for the cops.

[@Auntypatti]

I know of speak easy restaurants

[@trooperdgb9722]

I attended a competition in what proved to be a "Dry County" in the US... (Texas Panhandle) When we asked where one could go to purchase some booze we were directed to an extremely large liquor store...just over the County line... lol

[@stevedietrich8936]

So . . . after all this time . . . do you mean to tell me that all those people were celebrating "Repeal Day" . . . and they didn't really know that it was my birthday? Sniff . . .

[@alexanderstrickland9036]

Happy birthday tomorrow.

[@stevedietrich8936]

@@alexanderstrickland9036 Thank you.

[@alanjames19711]

I'll drink to that. 🤗🍺🍹🍸

[@stevedietrich8936]

@Maria Kelly Thanks Maria.

[@timturn]

I have seen one of those wine bricks before, the imstructions would give you a chuckle.

[@stevedietrich8936]

good morning THG

[@johnharris1636]

Another great history lesson! I’ll be sure to fly my flag tomorrow and roast Repeal Day! That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer… Check out the series from Mike Rowe, “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

I read that during Prohibition Stroh's Brewing in Detroit made ice cream.

[@joelbornhoft1211]

One of many that did. Yeungling's (sp?) did and went back to beer afterwards and still is brewing. Same family owns it yet to this day.

[@justinlanghorne9611]

Anyone know why it took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol (controlled substance) but now we feel like we can just ban any drug all Willy nilly.

[@vespelian5769]

Because they hadn't found prisons quite so lucrative then.

[@dbmail545]

@@vespelian5769 there's a lot to what you say. But don't forget the usefulness of demonizing your political opponents as drug addicts and lowlifes in general per Richard Nixon.

[@TranscendianIntendor]

@@dbmail545 We used to get pot from Mexico, Jamaica, and the best ever came from Panama & was called Panama Red.

[@WarblesOnALot]

@@TranscendianIntendor G'day, "No Stalk, No Seed, That you Don't need...; Accapulco Gold is Baddest Weeeed...!" (Cheech & Chong...). Sinsemilla (Seedless) RULEZ ! Such is Life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

[@allanrichardson1468]

Alcohol had been a staple of almost all civilizations throughout history, and was implicitly approved by the original Constitution. Also, import tariffs and tax on alcohol were the primary means of financing the federal government until the 16th Amendment passed in 1913, authorizing the income tax (the Union passed one to finance the Civil War, but it was repealed afterward, and it would have been struck down anyway, since it was a direct tax NOT apportioned among the states by population, which is why an amendment was needed). Essentially, the 13th Amendment made the 18th financially feasible. And the pressure to allow women to vote made it political suicide at the time to oppose the Amendment; the 19th Amendment was passed about a year after the 18th! As for “other” drugs, that was partly based on racism (Mexicans liked pot, inner city black men, especially jazz musicians, liked heroin), and partly due to the repeal of Prohibition putting smugglers, bootleggers, and enforcement police out of work.

[@mh53j]

So Karens have been around for a long time....

[@86hj49gt]

Of course, marriage, working husbands, and Syphilis were more of a thing back then.

[@scottjohnston8044]

There has always been someone that can tell you how to live your life.

[@dbmail545]

And the first thing they did after getting the vote was to outlaw alcohol. And ironic that Prohibition actually "liberated" women to drink in speakeasies.

[@monkeygraborange]

Perhaps now that after a century we can finally admit that, while well-intended, the 19th Amendment has utterly failed.

[@BHuang92]

Goes way back. Karen is actually very recent but there are similar names like Becky, Patty, Trixie, and Caroline that fill a similar meaning.

[@dbmail545]

Bad ideas never die, as proven by Nixon's "war on drugs". Almost as if Prohibition never happened to prove the futility outlawing something that was widely popular.

[@avgj0378]

Better to have a "sin tax" to generate revenue than to try to legislate morality... and fail, IMHO.

[@brachiator1]

@@avgj0378 The value of sin taxes depends on the product. Cigarette smoking has declined, reducing the amount of taxes raised. Increasing taxes pushes smoking down further. In some states, taxes on cannabis makes illegal weed cheaper, helping to prop up the illegal market.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@brachiator1 Depends: what is the purpose of the sin tax? To raise revenue or reduce the sin? If the latter, reduced revenue means it is working. If the former, than it was all a bullshit money extraction scheme to begin with.

[@brachiator1]

@@RCAvhstape People stopped smoking because of education campaigns and perhaps because of health insurance incentives and laws banning smoking. The ideal sin tax raises reliable revenues from something people will continue to do in substantial numbers.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@brachiator1 No, the ideal sin tax makes people stop doing the harmful activity. If you tell me smoking is horrible and then pass a tax to make money off of smoking, you are horrible.

[@rickponsetto3443]

I was in grad school when the 50th anniversary of repeal was recognized in the bar we were at

[@ltlbuddha]

OH NO!!! THG is now support by the Mob... Museum

[@deborahphillips500]

This evening I shall celebrate the occasion with either a single malt scotch or a limited batch bourbon. Decisions, decisions.

[@craffte]

Ok stop with the bragging. I'm low on my Chateau Ste. Michelle. Oh wait!! I just remembered I still have a full bottle of Speyburn CHEERS MY FREN!

[@MikeJBeebe]

@@craffte Chateau Ste. Michelle -- Washington state REPRESENT!

[@craffte]

@@MikeJBeebe oh no way didn't know!... Lovely

[@bcfairlie1]

Decision! Er.....both....of course

[@surlygirly1926]

I vote for the boxed wine. 😎

[@nedludd7622]

The most destructive drug has never been prohibited. It is tobacco. Other drugs like opiates, hallucinogenics, and cannabis have only been prohibited for 100 years or less. Alcohol consumption had been declining for decades before Prohibition. So it was a law for a problem that did not exist.

[@nedludd7622]

@Mike Smith AA is a fraud. No scientific value whatever. Look up the statistics for yourself. I do not spoon feed idiots anymore.

[@nedludd7622]

@Mike Smith At most only in some cases.

[@nedludd7622]

@Mike Smith There is no god or gods. That is a fraud by the priest class. Belief in god is a disease itself.

[@nedludd7622]

@Mike Smith That is the dumb Pascal's Wager. Jebus, the gawdamn Babble is recent compared to other religious myths. None of them have ever proved anything. The Babble is just a hodge-podge collection and rewriting of those earlier myths.

[@JessRenee91481]

They can't keep booze out of prisons, it bogles the mind that they thought that prohibition to even kind of work.

[@howtubeable]

Progressives love to control others. Look at the COVID-19 over-reach. Look at Woke Culture.

[@naomibedek1701]

Would love to visit the Mob Museum in Vegas.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Well worth the visit!

[@dennisriblett4622]

I always learn something from You .Thanks .

[@jackiemowery5243]

My dad always proudly claimed that granny was a bootlegger back during Prohibition. I remember one morning when she was driving me to school, she pointed to a nondescript house and said, "Back during Prohibition, that house was a three story still. The boiler was in the basement, and the pipes ran clear to the attic." This would have been back in 1966 (IIRC), in Council Bluffs, IA.

[@randallisaeff1876]

Great Episode, History Guy! I'll drink to that!