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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

Simonson, John

Paperback

Series: American Palate

LiquorRegional: MidwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1467138711
ISBN13: 9781467138710
Publisher: History Press
Published: Mar 5 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.

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