Because of the lawlessness that Prohibition inspired, as well as the prospect of jobs that legal alcohol production could ...

George Remus controlled one-third of illicit liquor sales during prohibition. His operation was once bigger than Al Capone's, ...

Confronted with the loss of booze, Americans comforted themselves with ice cream. Lots and lots of ice cream. A group of men and women eat ice cream together in the 1930s. By that time, ice cream was ...

On December 3, 1887, noted prohibition leader Henry Clay Needham purchased Lyon’s Station, setting in motion a unique ...

“Whiskey flasks touted their full or honest measure of contents,” Hartman writes. “Medicine bottles listed conditions that ...

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A new bar heading to Teesside is aiming for the more mature crowd with an over 35s policy. The Prohibition Bar - themed around a 1920s speakeasy style - will open its doors to customers for the first ...

The early 1920s were caught between the lingering hardships of World War I and the exuberance of the Jazz Age that would come to define the Roaring Twenties. In America, speakeasies were springing up ...

A handful of companies, including Brown-Forman, received medicinal licenses to legally sell existing spirits during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did not immediately solve the ...

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society In the mid 1920s, an unprecedented winning streak continues on Wall Street, and it feels to many like the good times will go on forever. Americans during the Jazz ...