gracesciuriday:xandrachantal:ayellowbirds:gutsygumshoe:this is in my history book about prohibition
gracesciuriday:xandrachantal:ayellowbirds:gutsygumshoe:this is in my history book about prohibition in the 1920s and i’m laughing so hard oh my goooooodi love how popular media makes speakeasies out to be incredibly secretive and impossible to find and this narc unjustly saddled with the best name ever found booze on arrival.100 years later new orleans is still Like That[ID: black text on a white background. “Secret bars called speakeasies proliferated. To demonstrate Americans’ widespread disrespect for prohibition, federal agent Izzy Einstein timed how long it took him to find alcohol in most major cities. It took him 21 minutes in Chicago, and only 31 seconds in New Orleans, when he asked a taxi driver where he could get a drink and the man replied, ‘right here,’ as he pulled out a bottle.” End ID] -- source link