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

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.

Speakeasies, illegal taverns that sell alcoholic beverages, came to an all-time high during the Prohibition era in the United States from 1920 to 1933.

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…

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January marks the 101st anniversary of Prohibition in America. These stunning photographs show how America's ban on alcohol took effect.

Cotton Club November 4, 1927 Duke Ellington’s big band opened at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group.

Flavor on Main brings to life the roaring twenties every night at our restaurant at 123 South Main Street. This page has the backstory abut the Jazz Age.

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