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In the United States, speakeasy bars date back to at least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth ...
The 1920s saw dramatic innovations in American political campaign techniques, based especially on new advertising methods that had worked so well selling war bonds during World War I. Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, the Democratic Party candidate, made a whirlwind campaign that took him to rallies, train station speeches, and formal addresses ...
Speakeasies, or "blind pigs," were illegal bars and became extremely common during Prohibition (1920–1933). The term "speakeasy" entered the vernacular in Pennsylvania in the late 1880s as illegal saloons flourished when the cost of legal liquor licenses was raised under the Brooks High License law. [ 22 ]
The Sunset Café, also known as the Grand Terrace Café or simply Grand Terrace, [13] operated during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when Chicago became a creative capital of jazz innovation and again during the emergence of bebop in the ...
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[22] The illegal culture of speakeasies led to what was known as ‘black and tan’ clubs which had multiracial crowds. [23] [24] There were many speakeasies, especially in Chicago and New York City. New York City had, at the height of Prohibition, 32,000 speakeasies. [25] At speakeasies, both payoffs and mechanisms for hiding alcohol were used.
Joe Hayhoe, a 39-year-old mortgage loan officer, built a speakeasy in his basement in September 2020. The 130-square-foot speakeasy can only be accessed by a bookshelf door that acts as a hidden ...
The hidden space, behind the tasting room wall and controlled by an electromagnetic lock, features red, velvet seats, an antique cash register and phone from the 1920s. This Little River ...