20 Photos From Prohibition

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In the United States, Prohibition began in 1920 and continued until 1933. For 13 years, people tried in every possible way to get around the ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol, staged demonstrations, protests, and smuggled en masse. In our time, it is still difficult to imagine the operation of this law in full force. However, what could be the consequences and how people lived during the ban on alcohol can be seen in the next photo selection.

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20 Photos From Prohibition

1. Get ready in advance that in these photos countless alcohol will pour directly into the sewer. As, for example, in this photo, where confiscated alcohol pours into the New York sewer. The faint of heart is a request not to leaf through the selection further!

20 Photos From Prohibition

2. The advertising sign on the window of this store announces that “time is reduced, like our reserves ...”, urging him, because the dry law is literally stepping on the heels.

20 Photos From Prohibition

3. Wine liters are pouring through the streets of Los Angeles.

20 Photos From Prohibition

4. The production plant near Detroit. It seems that he will not be able to resume his work soon. If you can at all ...

20 Photos From Prohibition

5. Barrels with drinking are drained into the sewer.

20 Photos From Prohibition

6. The smugglers came up with the most incredible schemes and options for bypassing the dry law. It seems that these years were the heyday of boundless human fantasy.

20 Photos From Prohibition

7. In the days of the Product Law, the Americans had to catch their heads a lot before they came up with a suitable method that would hide a “bottle or two” from the police's prying eyes.

20 Photos From Prohibition

8. To avoid punishment and make their “alcohol tricks” as much as possible, these smugglers organized a business in the forest away from the city.

20 Photos From Prohibition

9. And these brave women prove that not all smugglers were men.

20 Photos From Prohibition

10. And again and again, Cambridge officers, Massachusetts, pour confiscated alcohol into the sewer.

20 Photos From Prohibition

11. A demonstration in New York on November 10, 1932 calls for the termination of the dry law.

20 Photos From Prohibition

12. Obviously, the ordinary residents of the city did not particularly complain about the dry law.

20 Photos From Prohibition

13. And these protesters even resorted to quotes from the Bible to finally reach the government.

20 Photos From Prohibition

14. Customs employees confiscate a large amount of alcohol from a boat of smugglers.

20 Photos From Prohibition

15. Nevertheless, people still managed to save some part of alcohol for a special case. For example, at this party, the dry law clearly did not act.

20 Photos From Prohibition

16. The Crazy Cat Club was a drawing school, a tree house, and one of the illegal bars in Washington.

20 Photos From Prohibition

17. The police are closing the illegal liquor plant in King County, Washington.

20 Photos From Prohibition

18. And here, police agents confiscate the boxes with drinking during the next raid.

20 Photos From Prohibition

19. Goodbye, 18th amendment! The action of the dry law is over.

20 Photos From Prohibition

20. Two employees of the New York Breeding Plant clean up the beer tank, which had been empty for more than 10 years during the action of the Sacle Law, November 23, 1932. The factories earned again after the abolition of the 18th amendment.

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