20 Photos From Prohibition

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.

19 PHOTOS

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!

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.

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

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

5. Barrels with drinking are drained into the sewer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.