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31, 1931, file photo the wrecked speakeasy in the Hotel Victoria in mid-Manhattan, where Louis Levine, alias Louis Taylor, a small-time gambler, was killed by one of three gunmen earlier in the day in New York.

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The cars are driven with one door open, so if the car goes through the ice the driver can escape. Large quantities of Canadian beer and whiskey are transported in cars from Amherstburg, Ont., Canada, across the frozen Detroit River to the Michigan side of the international boundary line in February of 1930. His outboard motorboat, loaded with illegal liquor, is shown beneath pilings. (AP Photo, File)ДЇILE - In this April 28, 1929, file photo a rum runner in Windsor, on the Canadian side of the Detroit River, watches with field glasses for lookout on the American side to signal that no prohibition agents are in sight. Bootleggers awash in cash bribed judges, politicians and law enforcement officers to let their operations continue. The federal government, as well as state and local authorities, spent huge sums on enforcement yet never allocated sufficient resources to do the job effectively. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Mark LennihanДЇILE - In this June 18, 1931, file photo beer barrels are destroyed by prohibition agents at a dump in New York City. Located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, McSorley's opened in the mid-19th century and functioned as a speakeasy during Prohibition.

27, 2019 photo, customers sit beneath vintage photos and documents, including a poster of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, in McSorley's Old Ale House in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Charles KrupaД¬lients and staff pose in New YorkвЂ™s McSorleyвЂ™s Old Ale House shortly before the beginning of Prohibition. Americans are consuming more alcohol per capita now than in the time leading up to Prohibition, when alcohol opponents successfully made the case that excessive drinking was ruining family life. 10, 2019, photo cocktails are crafted at Wink & Nod, basement-dwelling, speakeasy-like bar, in Boston. Borjes/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) Charles S. 17, 1920, until December 1933, is now viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking. The Prohibition Era, which lasted from Jan. FILE - In this 1922 file photo spectators gather by the side of captured rum runner, Silver Spray, as they watch prohibition agents pour 'white lightning' from the five-gallon bottles on the deck into the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, Va.

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