Not really a perfect analogy. Most people drink, or have drank. It is a normal part of everyday social life, and meals. Drugs not so much. Efficacy of laws and enforcement aside, they aren't quite the same.
@@Vykk_Draygo I think it is a perfect analogy. Makes ordinary people criminal and makes criminals rich. I suspect that you have no idea how many of your acquaintances smoke marijuana. I have smoked for 50 years and still get surprised.
@@dbmail545 The fact that you're surprised about people you know smoking cannabis actually shows the effect of banning cannabis and that prohibition had a different effect than contemporary drug laws.
I'm 56 years old my grandmother was always proud to tell us that my grandfather made the best beer. She said when the prohibition agents came around they never broke his barrels they took them. She also said they never busted up his brewing equipment too bad they more or less just took it apart so he could put it back together. Grandpa was an immigrant learn the craft in Germany so it's a very believable story
@@JesusIsKingAndSavior thank you for your reply. Back in those days Tammy great you needed a sponsor someone in America that said I'll take care of those persons until they get on their feet. It made for a good work ethic that's what made our Country Strong.
@@gus473 I doubt Dominion does small jobs like that, so we need to get people thinking about history. Lots of people thinking about it would hopefully mean more attention to THG.All we need is to cause a hashtag to go viral. I would suggest #history, due to just plain history being misused and ignored in our present political charades. It might turn the election. I hope so too. 8D
I inspected a home in approx 2010 near the Griffith park Observatory, and the owner had just discovered a speak easy (hidden bar) in his basement. It had a 30 ft. Long bar with about 10 booths. What a find in his own home!
One of our friends bought a home in Minneapolis that had been unoccupied since the late 1920s or early 1930s. (This was in the 1960s.) They found a still in the basement, flapper dresses in the closets, and a host of other interesting items. Evidently the previous owners had just walked away from the property, and no one had ever cleaned it out. They restored the Victorian-age house and lived in it for many years.
@@apo18llo Only really an relevant when its illegal. Bootlegging isn't profitable if you can buy beer at the corner store legally, so organized crime would be no more or less involved with it as any other legal commodity.
@@morganrobinson8042 also some jurisdictions around the world have high taxes on alcohol to discourage its use, making it profitable for organized crime.
@@billbolton In the novel MASH, Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest are driving to the 4077th when Duke tells Hawkeye he has some liquor with him. Hawk then askes if it's real or did he make it himself. Duke, a Georgian, says he bought it from the Yankee government and from where he comes from, it's real if you make it yourself.
I was literally talking about this to my class today. My wife's father was by his own words a 'repeal baby' as his birthday was virtually 9 months to the day to the repeal of Prohibition. Happy Days Are Here Again indeed! Great show as usual!
Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.
That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer…. Check out A Series from Mike Rowe “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!
@@johnharris1636 I have heard this explanation for why the Mayflower stopped at that particular location. (It was also a pretty good place for the settlers, as there was a recently abandoned native town site and attendant farmed land, thanks to a recently, and accidentally, introduced European epidemic, but those wee a dime a dozen all along the eastern seaboard of what is now the United States. for this same reason.)
The man at the store told my mother and her younger sister one day that if they found any bottles, he would give them a nickle each. One day they found a whole pile of bottles and loaded up their wagon and brought them over, thinking they would be rich. When they got there, the man told them that Prohibition was over and he didn't need the bottles anymore. In 1933 she would have been 9 and her sister 6.
I have in my possession a "Prescriptions Forms for Medical Liquor" book of prescriptions, issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. The first prescription in it was November 22, 1932. It lists the name and address of the "patient", the type and amount of the liquor prescribed, and the name and address of the prescribing doctor, all on the receipt part of the book. It has 100 prescriptions in the book, each with a carbon copy of the prescription. There are 22 prescriptions filled with the originals and the carbon copy duplicate removed. A further three originals are missing, I assume from a collector. The pharmacy was in the New Orleans area, as all of the names have New Orleans addresses. All of the prescriptions given are listed as "Whiskey, Q", which I assume means Quart. I have NO idea of it's value.
The important lesson here is that when government goes so far as to make ordinary private acts illegal, it makes criminals of its own citizenry.....And the newly defined criminals will not long remain silent or apathetic. And let us not forget, in the early 20th Century example the government's action led to the pirating of alcohol, but then again, don't all good stories...
So . . . after all this time . . . do you mean to tell me that all those people were celebrating "Repeal Day" . . . and they didn't really know that it was my birthday? Sniff . . .
He summered near me in the secluded beach of a small one cop farm town that had the mansions of the Bells ,Studebakers ,Rockwells etc all lined up on th NH coast , they drank like protected fish, the local town cops were totally in on it.
I love Ogden Nash, but to REALLY understand that poem you HAVE to know the title: "Reflections on Ice Breaking". (NOTE TO MILLENNIALS: "Ice Breaking" refers to when a man "breaks the ice" with a woman, meaning to make a woman he has not met before feel relaxed with him.)
I was a bartender in the mid 1970's until my retirement. The man who taught me how to tend bar worked thru prohibition, and often called the bars gin mills. Where we worked was the first bar built, and opened after prohibition in Salem MA. The bar, and back bar was deliciously art deco, mirrors etc.
My Dad told me about during the Depression, his family needed money--so my grandfather made and sold Bathtub Gin--with the blessings of the county Sherriff--who would come over every Saturday night for a private party! Kansas remained dry until the 1960's.(In fact, there are still a few counties in Western Kansas that are still dry!) When my Dad was old enough, he drove a truck for a living. (And that's just about ALL he did for a living!) During the 50's, whenever he had a run into Missouri, he would bring back a few cases of beer for his brothers and Grandpa. (Dad did not drink, himself. In fact, our family were, and still are, teetotalers!) But for some reason--Dad's favorite movie was "Smokey And The Bandit"! 😉
During Prohibition , Cannabis was LEGAL , said to be a cure for Alcoholism & wife beating !! Booze makes some people mean , Cannabis makes most people peaceful & calm .
I went to college in a small Ohio town that was still dry in the 1970s. There was a liquor store, much frequented by us students, one inch over the town line. The town finally went wet in the 1980s, a half century after the general repeal.
The most destructive drug has never been prohibited. It is tobacco. Other drugs like opiates, hallucinogenics, and cannabis have only been prohibited for 100 years or less. Alcohol consumption had been declining for decades before Prohibition. So it was a law for a problem that did not exist.
@Mike Smith That is the dumb Pascal's Wager. Jebus, the gawdamn Babble is recent compared to other religious myths. None of them have ever proved anything. The Babble is just a hodge-podge collection and rewriting of those earlier myths.
Today the vote is for Legal Cannabis on FED Level . WAY PAST TIME to end the war on People/Cannabis ! that & THIS Fuel dirty cops & is the Right thing to do .
@@cursed_multicel Legalization ! Not Decriminalization ! there is a difference . It should be just like beer & wine .. grow your own , that is what freedom looks like . DECRIM leaves HUGE HOLES In our freedom .
@@danoneill2846 Yes, I know. The MORE act WOULD NOT "LEGALIZE" CANNABIS. It would only DECRIMINALIZE it. Hence, it represents a baby step in the right direction. It is not the end-all. The two terms are frequently confused. Consider updating your comment to reflect the truth.
the lessons of the 18th are vast. unfortunately few of our bloviating lawmakers today seem unable (or unwilling) to learn that using words like 'ban' in a law will almost always create more far more problems than they solve. oh well, petty dictators have always reveled in keeping people down. (I bet THG could compile a much larger list than I could) It's just a shame that so many Governors today seem to have failed to learn anything from this period. thank you, for your entertaining snippets, you are engaging and professional and should be proud of your channel.
Anyone know why it took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol (controlled substance) but now we feel like we can just ban any drug all Willy nilly.
@@vespelian5769 there's a lot to what you say. But don't forget the usefulness of demonizing your political opponents as drug addicts and lowlifes in general per Richard Nixon.
@@TranscendianIntendor G'day, "No Stalk, No Seed, That you Don't need...; Accapulco Gold is Baddest Weeeed...!" (Cheech & Chong...). Sinsemilla (Seedless) RULEZ ! Such is Life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
Alcohol had been a staple of almost all civilizations throughout history, and was implicitly approved by the original Constitution. Also, import tariffs and tax on alcohol were the primary means of financing the federal government until the 16th Amendment passed in 1913, authorizing the income tax (the Union passed one to finance the Civil War, but it was repealed afterward, and it would have been struck down anyway, since it was a direct tax NOT apportioned among the states by population, which is why an amendment was needed). Essentially, the 13th Amendment made the 18th financially feasible. And the pressure to allow women to vote made it political suicide at the time to oppose the Amendment; the 19th Amendment was passed about a year after the 18th! As for “other” drugs, that was partly based on racism (Mexicans liked pot, inner city black men, especially jazz musicians, liked heroin), and partly due to the repeal of Prohibition putting smugglers, bootleggers, and enforcement police out of work.
On the back of brewery produced yeast kits there would be step-by-step instructions of what NOT to do "otherwise an illegal intoxicating beverage may result".
@@txgunguy2766 An old rime my mother passed on to me: Mama's in the kitchen, washing out the jugs; Papa's in the laundry, bottling the suds; Tommy's in the basement, checking on the hops; Sister's on the front porch, watching for the cops.
Women in the Temperance Movements: *Lobby to get to prohibition out into place.* *Drinking becomes common among women in the Prohibition era in speakeasys.* Women in the Temperance Movement: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
Bad ideas never die, as proven by Nixon's "war on drugs". Almost as if Prohibition never happened to prove the futility outlawing something that was widely popular.
@@avgj0378 The value of sin taxes depends on the product. Cigarette smoking has declined, reducing the amount of taxes raised. Increasing taxes pushes smoking down further. In some states, taxes on cannabis makes illegal weed cheaper, helping to prop up the illegal market.
@@brachiator1 Depends: what is the purpose of the sin tax? To raise revenue or reduce the sin? If the latter, reduced revenue means it is working. If the former, than it was all a bullshit money extraction scheme to begin with.
@@RCAvhstape People stopped smoking because of education campaigns and perhaps because of health insurance incentives and laws banning smoking. The ideal sin tax raises reliable revenues from something people will continue to do in substantial numbers.
@@brachiator1 No, the ideal sin tax makes people stop doing the harmful activity. If you tell me smoking is horrible and then pass a tax to make money off of smoking, you are horrible.
December 4th 2020: the United States House of Representatives will take up a vote on the MORE Act, which would officially decriminalize cannabis and clear the way to erase nonviolent federal marijuana convictions. What a coincidence!
And the first thing they did after getting the vote was to outlaw alcohol. And ironic that Prohibition actually "liberated" women to drink in speakeasies.
@@makeracistsafraidagain Neo-Cons and Neo-Liberals failed our nation. Leftists are annoying and need to mind their own business, primarily bc they don't know enough about themselves or their society - and they end up making things worse. Conservatives true to the name just want to be left alone to live their lives and take care of their own business - rather than corporate war hawks ( which can't wait for more wars under Biden/Harris - should be a blast) And regarding your name. The biggest racists in the U.S. are the people who want to divide us all up by outer identity and race - i.e. - leftists.
I've been "bootlegging" for years to friends of mine in dry southern counties of Kentucky. Their low taxes on tobacco products made for good trade with Tennessee.
You didn't mention the largest financial contributor to the Temperance movement. John D. Rockefeller. At that time period car would run on any fuel, most area started brewing there own gas, so to insure his monopoly of the fuel market, he financed the temperance movement to help them in starting prohibition. He also used his political connections to help it get passed.
At 2:57/58 in the video, the group of temperance women are the most sour faced people I have ever seen. Not a single smile to be seen. No Wonder their husbands drank.
@Timothy McCaskey What is it with brothers- inlaw? One of mine drank Scotch and coffee. And here's on for you, one of my brothers would have Ballantine's 18 year old over Butterscotch ice cream and wash it down with warm Heineken. I'm thoroughly convinced he was switched at birth.😂😂😂😂
This nicely clarifies the reasoning behind prohibition. When my great grandfather came to New York in 1929, armed with a letter of introduction from William Randolph Hurst, he came specifically in search of speakeasies to write about in his newspaper column. In his book The American Ilusion 1929, he was surprised to find New Jersey operating as usual as though the Volstadt act did not exist. He travelled extensively throughout America - meeting Hurst and playing table tennis with him - and getting his book out just before the Wall Street crash.
I remember drinking an O'Doul's at a country club at 17. They would serve me because it was non-alcoholic. That lasted until some person saw a "kid" drinking a "real beer" and made a fuss. Turns out it has a tiny percentage and fell into some vague area. They stopped. Just as well.
I worked at a restaurant on a pier in lower alabama when I was in highschool. A little old lady came in one day and ordered a o’douls saying ‘I’ve always been a lightweight but I’m getting drunk tonight’. Cracked me up
I am proud of my home and would love to see you pay The Granite Sate some attention. Perhaps the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 and the pivotal role the president of the United States played in the negotiation Sino nipple War would be worthy of your attention.
As of when I started watching this video, it had 12 views and 18 likes. I suspect at least 6 of the "likers" suddenly realized how thirsty they were...
I attended a competition in what proved to be a "Dry County" in the US... (Texas Panhandle) When we asked where one could go to purchase some booze we were directed to an extremely large liquor store...just over the County line... lol
Prohibition of alcohol or marijuana, gun control, opposition to same-sex marriage, and on and on--it's always the same: the meddlesome urge to control others.
Wikipedia (Teetotalism) explains the etymology of the term: "at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of total; the tee- is presumably a reduplication of the first letter of total, much as contemporary idiom today might say 'total with a capital T'."
My mother and her family lived upstairs of her grandmother, who was a teetotaler and shaker. Her father use to make beer in a washing machine. One time he didn't make the beer right and the caps blew off the bottles and the foam ran down. Grandmother asked what the noise was, he said that he tipped a chair over.
Made a lot of batches of beer and that happens. Kick the mixture a tad "hot" while bottling ( too much sugar) or too warm a place for the bottles to sit and "carbonate" and this happens. The reason I don't brew any more is the lack of climate control where I live now. I'd be losing half my batches.
The same reasons apply for the war on drugs. And let's be honest - no people in their right mind would start using heroin, just because it got legalized..
Another great history lesson! I’ll be sure to fly my flag tomorrow and roast Repeal Day! That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer… Check out the series from Mike Rowe, “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!
One would think that the prohibition experiment would referenced in the modern prohibition of marijuana. Making something illegal doesn't make it go away. It just spawns organised crime.
I found an old prohibition era liquor bottle buried in the dirt on a jobsite. It was fully intact too! It actually has raised lettering on the glass that states it is for "medicinal use only" lol.
My father made whiskey back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s and a couple times when I was a kid in the 70s. My uncle, my mothers brother, served 2 years on the county chain gang for making and hauling whiskey. He said it was actually the easiest 2 years of his life. Nothing like the hollywood movies.
@@kaminsod4077 Is why I said, mass produced, the craft brews are on or above par of a few of the European's(warning, steer clear of Eischbaum bier in Germany, it seems to have been the bier Vietnam's, Bomb B Bomb brews formula, nasty formaldehyde back taste with headaches to ensue)
I was in an Irish bar once and the guitarist/singer stopped in the middle of his song as two woman came out of the ladies room, one of them helping the other, who was clearly smashed and had obviously been puking. After they walked out the door, the singer looked at the crowd and said, "Let that be a lesson to you, folks: If you're going to drink, you have to practice!" And thus he went back to singing and we went back to drinking.
@@RCAvhstape Which reminds me of what I used to say on St. Patrick's Day when I lived in San Francisco and was out drinking almost every night: "I'm staying home. Too many amateurs out there tonight."
Before full repeal, Congress amended the Volstead act to define "intoxicating" as 3.2 percent, not 0.5, thus allowing weak beer to be sold. Many states' legal drinking age before prohibition was 18. When full repeal finally passed, many of those same states set the age for purchase of anything stronger at 21, and distinction remained until a couple of decades ago. That's why 3.2 beer became a staple of the college (and high school) parties in many places, including Colorado and Ohio..
I still don’t understand why that came about. Straw purchases of alcohol are so easy. Maybe back then there were no random guys at gas stations or liquor stores that you could bribe with $5?
@@alexanderstrickland9036 Mothers Against Drunk Driving put immense pressure on Congress which responded by raising the drinking age to 21 nationwide. They couldn't do it directly, so they blackmailed the states by threatening to withhold highway funds for states that didn't comply.
@@scarter727 I meant more why I didn’t understand why college kids bought the weaker beer instead of the stronger illegal stuff through straw purchases
@@alexanderstrickland9036 The Sink and Tulagi. If you were 19, wouldn't you rather go here than drink in your room? ruclips.net/video/OgnY98vWZgA/видео.html
A good friend of mine actually works for Coors Ceramics, and I had always wondered if there was a connection to the other, better known, Coors. And now I know and it makes perfect sense too! Thanks History Guy!
I know the Coors brewery is in Golden, Colorado. Not too far from where I grew up. If the Ceramics place your friend works at is somewhere near there it's certainly possible. 🙂
Here in Chicago there are a lots of pubs and bars that say “established 1933” or 1934. They are all ex-speakeasies. My local pub was a “soft drinks bar” where you could get non alcoholic drinks. But if you knew the person they would take you out in the alley down a stair case to the basement were the hard stuff (made on the second floor) was sold. One of the local distilleries (FEW Sprits) is ironically named after one of Chicago’s temperance leaders Frances Elizabeth Willard
This is one of the reasons I hate "do good" programs and government heavy handed interference in social norms. It never works they way you think it will.
@@johnbarber4549 Great point! The Tobacco tax was supposed to punish vice until the government started to depend on it. Now they need more smokers because they are addicted to the tax revenue!!
IIRC, the county where Lynchburg, TN is located is a dry county. The only thing you can sample at the Jack Daniel's Distillery is the famed Lynchburg Lemonade. Although you are encouraged to sample Jack Daniel's where it legal to do so.
@@MausMasher54 Smoke what? I haven't smoked cigarettes in over 30 years! It's legal in Las Vegas and Nevada for recreational and medical marijuana! That's a different story! Or is it?
I'm sure the three covid patients I transported day before yesterday and the one I transported yesterday would be happy to support you... assuming they survive.
@@LetsTakeWalk There’s a definition for those people, they’re called essential workers. They have been working every day since this crap began back in February.
@@LetsTakeWalk You should be asking how many people die everyday. According to the CDC the numbers are the same as before COVID-19. If you want to stay home for the rest of your life, you are free to do so as long as you can afford it. Few people have this option and few desire it. Calculated risks are a part of life.
I knew there was prohibition in the US, I knew when it was. After that THG was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel here. If I retain 10% of a THG video, I'll probably be 90% better informed than I was... Thanks THG.
Great synopsis of the subject. It took me nearly a lifetime of drinking to decide its not for me. Don't miss it a bit. (Well, that occasional glass of a good red...)
Apparently, my Mayflower ancestor, Stephen Hopkins, was fined at least twice for not only allowing drunkenness in his Plimoth home, but overcharging for the alcohol! I'm so proud...lol
"How Big Oil Conquered the World" at CorbettReport(.)com > Rockefeller funded the temperance movement to stop farmers from brewing ethanol to run their Ford tractors and Model T trucks, forcing their 90% Standard Oil monopoly on petroleum
That Coors ceramic was used in Project Pluto, which was a nuclear-powered cruise missile designed to stay aloft for weeks or even months during and after a nuclear war, flying over and dropping 1mt warheads on enemy targets, all the while moving at Mach 3+. The engine needed to function at extremely high temperature for months (potentially); the fuel elements were clad in high grade ceramic to prevent their melting, and the Adolph Coors company produced the ceramic cladding for the lone example of the engine that was produced (and successfully stand-tested).
A couple of peripheral prohibition stories.... Howard Hughes was one of those who stockpiled liquor at the onset of prohibition. His father had bought out the entire stock of the Rice Hotel bar in Houston. In his book "Howard--The Amazing Mr. Hughes" (1972), Hughes executive/factotum Noah Dietrich describes his adventures moving this huge quantity of booze from Texas to California. In Al-Capone-era Chicago, the gangs hired the poor to produce alcohol on mini-stills in their tenements all over Little Italy. They gave the police a list of their still locations, and if the police found one not on the list, they busted it with full publicity. This helped cut down on competition. In return, the police gave the mob a list of participating badge numbers, and if someone not on the list tried to collect graft or cause trouble, they were turned in--or dissuaded in other ways. A classic symbiotic relationship. And in the 1960's my high-school history teacher told us about a sign he saw at a roadside restaurant in rural Alabama in the 1920's: "Near Beer Here; Real Beer Near Here." Added in edit: Prohibition also had serious public health consequences. The available black-market alcohol was often not very good quality; and it might be adulterated with wood alcohol, rubbing alcohol, etc. People also drank stuff like hair tonic and various patent medicines, and there were a lot of poisonings and deaths. Moonshine whisky was often distilled through car radiators, causing cumulative lead poisoning and kidney failure. This was a problem long after prohibition, particularly in the Southern states. I remember seeing public health posters in high school in the 1960s: "Avoid deadly moonshine whisky." Cheers.
How about a show about the battle of Blair mountain and or the coal wars of West Virginia. Very interesting that it’s the only instance of US military about to airplanes against its own citizens till inclemental weather turned them around.
my favorite bit of Prohibition related history is that of the connection of Al Capone and his 'One city, Two countries scheme' along the southern Texas border with Mexico, and the state of Tamaulipas. a stone's throw across the Rio Grande River (Río Bravo del Norte) that outlets into the Gulf of Mexico was the prime location for the famed bootlegger. not only was Tamaulipus right with alcohol it was a gambler's haven and bars and all sorts of gambling Opportunities most notably ground hound races, and brothels. The U.S. city of Rio Rico was in 1906 a U.S. held territory across the river south of Mercedes and east of Nuevo Progreso and a two-lane suspension bridge from Thayer to the town of Rio Rico, south of Mercedes and east of Nuevo Progreso. A 10-cent bridge toll allowed visitors to a recreational center of gambling and drinking with rumors of connections to organized crime leaders like Al Capone. (source The Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg TX, which is the County set of Hidalgo County)
Great video, I went to the Mob Museum in Downtown Vegas, I always stay at the El Cortez, great Hotel / Casino once owned by Bugsy Segal, the restaurant is called Segal's. Great Hotel 2 blocks from the Mob Museum and cheaper than the Strip Hotels by far, NO Resort Fee! What is cool is they have some of the old Slot Machines that use quarters, check it out.
200 proof alcohol or 100% alcohol isn't really possible from a home still. The highest that a home still can achieve if you really really know what you are doing is 90%-96% if your really lucky. Your really looking at mid 80's maximum on a good day with repeated distillations.
Prohibition worked about as well as the war on drugs.
Not really a perfect analogy. Most people drink, or have drank. It is a normal part of everyday social life, and meals. Drugs not so much. Efficacy of laws and enforcement aside, they aren't quite the same.
@@Vykk_Draygo I think it is a perfect analogy. Makes ordinary people criminal and makes criminals rich. I suspect that you have no idea how many of your acquaintances smoke marijuana. I have smoked for 50 years and still get surprised.
@@dbmail545 The fact that you're surprised about people you know smoking cannabis actually shows the effect of banning cannabis and that prohibition had a different effect than contemporary drug laws.
And now the president-"elect" wants to ban guns.
@@grizzlygrizzle proof ?
I'm 56 years old my grandmother was always proud to tell us that my grandfather made the best beer. She said when the prohibition agents came around they never broke his barrels they took them. She also said they never busted up his brewing equipment too bad they more or less just took it apart so he could put it back together. Grandpa was an immigrant learn the craft in Germany so it's a very believable story
Cheers to your Grandparents and to your lineage! Excellent story. God Bless America and God Bless the World.
@@JesusIsKingAndSavior thank you for your reply. Back in those days Tammy great you needed a sponsor someone in America that said I'll take care of those persons until they get on their feet. It made for a good work ethic that's what made our Country Strong.
Off topic, but congrats on 900k man, you deserve it!
Oh yea
Will THG hit 1,000,000 in 2020...? 🤔⏳🤞
I liked this one. More non military history please.
@@gus473
I doubt Dominion does small jobs like that, so we need to get people thinking about history. Lots of people thinking about it would hopefully mean more attention to THG.All we need is to cause a hashtag to go viral. I would suggest #history, due to just plain history being misused and ignored in our present political charades. It might turn the election.
I hope so too. 8D
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman
That’s funny right thar!
"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy." - Frank Sinatra
If you call someone an alcoholic, you'd better have Proof.
Emily Adams
Indeed. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
I inspected a home in approx 2010 near the Griffith park Observatory, and the owner had just discovered a speak easy (hidden bar) in his basement. It had a 30 ft. Long bar with about 10 booths. What a find in his own home!
Did he preserved that speakeasy?
One of our friends bought a home in Minneapolis that had been unoccupied since the late 1920s or early 1930s. (This was in the 1960s.) They found a still in the basement, flapper dresses in the closets, and a host of other interesting items. Evidently the previous owners had just walked away from the property, and no one had ever cleaned it out. They restored the Victorian-age house and lived in it for many years.
Awesome! Sounds like a fun discovery! 🤣😂
"They say they are going to repeal prohibition; what will you do then?"
"Think I'll have a drink" Last line, The Untouchables.
Good movie. Great line.
Shouldn't the Mob Museum be located on Capitol Hill in Washington?
No that is still a functioning exhibit.
@@shawnr771 indeed! New exhibits opening on a daily basis!
@@shawnr771 LoL!
Ha! Great comment!
Wow so funny last time I heard this one I fell off my dinosaur
To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems!
- Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment, The Simpsons
mmm...organized crime
The beer baron!
@@apo18llo Only really an relevant when its illegal. Bootlegging isn't profitable if you can buy beer at the corner store legally, so organized crime would be no more or less involved with it as any other legal commodity.
@@morganrobinson8042 also some jurisdictions around the world have high taxes on alcohol to discourage its use, making it profitable for organized crime.
@@billbolton In the novel MASH, Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest are driving to the 4077th when Duke tells Hawkeye he has some liquor with him. Hawk then askes if it's real or did he make it himself. Duke, a Georgian, says he bought it from the Yankee government and from where he comes from, it's real if you make it yourself.
There is always a bunch of people who believe they have a right to interfere in your life. They just switch targets from time to time.
They just moved the interference from booze to the 2nd Amendment.
Notice that every single woman on these Temperance Committees was bag-on-the-head level....Coincidence?
Alcohol would've been their best friend..remember the song, "The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time"?
I was literally talking about this to my class today. My wife's father was by his own words a 'repeal baby' as his birthday was virtually 9 months to the day to the repeal of Prohibition. Happy Days Are Here Again indeed! Great show as usual!
THG: It's 5 o'clock somewhere and it's Friday; Yes Indeed.
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Crazy how often 10am on a Monday is actually 5pm on a Friday
@@marsoz_ It may be time to consider making friends with Bill W.
Fun fact: George Remus would hijack his own whiskey shipments, collect the insurance money, and sell the whiskey on the black market.
That's the American way, right there.
Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.
Ahh, George Remus - from my neck of the woods.
Couldn't drink the water we had to drink beer. Again, can't drink tap water or the plastic bottles water, need more beer
I understand.
Is this what Flint was up to?
It took humans a long time to learn not to shit in their drinking water. Beer, wine and hard cider mostly wouldn't kill you.
That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer…. Check out A Series from Mike Rowe “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!
@@johnharris1636 I have heard this explanation for why the Mayflower stopped at that particular location. (It was also a pretty good place for the settlers, as there was a recently abandoned native town site and attendant farmed land, thanks to a recently, and accidentally, introduced European epidemic, but those wee a dime a dozen all along the eastern seaboard of what is now the United States. for this same reason.)
The man at the store told my mother and her younger sister one day that if they found any bottles, he would give them a nickle each. One day they found a whole pile of bottles and loaded up their wagon and brought them over, thinking they would be rich. When they got there, the man told them that Prohibition was over and he didn't need the bottles anymore. In 1933 she would have been 9 and her sister 6.
That was a cool story. Thank you.
From the stories I've heard it sounds like just about everyone kept on drinking during prohibition.
@@internetwonderbuilder4741 mostly. Some only used it "medicinally"
I have in my possession a "Prescriptions Forms for Medical Liquor" book of prescriptions, issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. The first prescription in it was November 22, 1932. It lists the name and address of the "patient", the type and amount of the liquor prescribed, and the name and address of the prescribing doctor, all on the receipt part of the book. It has 100 prescriptions in the book, each with a carbon copy of the prescription. There are 22 prescriptions filled with the originals and the carbon copy duplicate removed. A further three originals are missing, I assume from a collector. The pharmacy was in the New Orleans area, as all of the names have New Orleans addresses. All of the prescriptions given are listed as "Whiskey, Q", which I assume means Quart. I have NO idea of it's value.
The important lesson here is that when government goes so far as to make ordinary private acts illegal, it makes criminals of its own citizenry.....And the newly defined criminals will not long remain silent or apathetic. And let us not forget, in the early 20th Century example the government's action led to the pirating of alcohol, but then again, don't all good stories...
So . . . after all this time . . . do you mean to tell me that all those people were celebrating "Repeal Day" . . . and they didn't really know that it was my birthday? Sniff . . .
Happy birthday tomorrow.
@@alexanderstrickland9036 Thank you.
I'll drink to that. 🤗🍺🍹🍸
@Maria Kelly Thanks Maria.
"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
" - Ogden Nash
The Northside Gentlemen's Club: Liquor in the front. Poker in the rear.
He summered near me in the secluded beach of a small one cop farm town that had the mansions of the Bells ,Studebakers ,Rockwells etc all lined up on th NH coast , they drank like protected fish, the local town cops were totally in on it.
"Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker. Suicide is slow with liquor." -Ozzy Osbourne 1980 \m/
I love Ogden Nash, but to REALLY understand that poem you HAVE to know the title: "Reflections on Ice Breaking". (NOTE TO MILLENNIALS: "Ice Breaking" refers to when a man "breaks the ice" with a woman, meaning to make a woman he has not met before feel relaxed with him.)
I thought Willy Wonka said that pal.
I was a bartender in the mid 1970's until my retirement. The man who taught me how to tend bar worked thru prohibition, and often called the bars gin mills. Where we worked was the first bar built, and opened after prohibition in Salem MA. The bar, and back bar was deliciously art deco, mirrors etc.
My Dad told me about during the Depression, his family needed money--so my grandfather made and sold Bathtub Gin--with the blessings of the county Sherriff--who would come over every Saturday night for a private party!
Kansas remained dry until the 1960's.(In fact, there are still a few counties in Western Kansas that are still dry!) When my Dad was old enough, he drove a truck for a living. (And that's just about ALL he did for a living!) During the 50's, whenever he had a run into Missouri, he would bring back a few cases of beer for his brothers and Grandpa. (Dad did not drink, himself. In fact, our family were, and still are, teetotalers!) But for some reason--Dad's favorite movie was "Smokey And The Bandit"! 😉
During Prohibition , Cannabis was LEGAL , said to be a cure for Alcoholism & wife beating !! Booze makes some people mean , Cannabis makes most people peaceful & calm .
It also inspired some great jazz music.
I went to college in a small Ohio town that was still dry in the 1970s. There was a liquor store, much frequented by us students, one inch over the town line. The town finally went wet in the 1980s, a half century after the general repeal.
The most destructive drug has never been prohibited. It is tobacco. Other drugs like opiates, hallucinogenics, and cannabis have only been prohibited for 100 years or less. Alcohol consumption had been declining for decades before Prohibition. So it was a law for a problem that did not exist.
@Mike Smith AA is a fraud. No scientific value whatever. Look up the statistics for yourself. I do not spoon feed idiots anymore.
@Mike Smith At most only in some cases.
@Mike Smith There is no god or gods. That is a fraud by the priest class. Belief in god is a disease itself.
@Mike Smith That is the dumb Pascal's Wager. Jebus, the gawdamn Babble is recent compared to other religious myths. None of them have ever proved anything. The Babble is just a hodge-podge collection and rewriting of those earlier myths.
Today the vote is for Legal Cannabis on FED Level . WAY PAST TIME to end the war on People/Cannabis ! that & THIS Fuel dirty cops & is the Right thing to do .
Decriminalization. NOT legalization. The difference between the two is huge.
@@cursed_multicel Legalization ! Not Decriminalization ! there is a difference . It should be just like beer & wine .. grow your own , that is what freedom looks like . DECRIM leaves HUGE HOLES In our freedom .
@@danoneill2846 Yes, I know. The MORE act WOULD NOT "LEGALIZE" CANNABIS. It would only DECRIMINALIZE it. Hence, it represents a baby step in the right direction. It is not the end-all.
The two terms are frequently confused. Consider updating your comment to reflect the truth.
@@cursed_multicel I am for full freedom not 1/2 steps
It's only the House vote. The Senate hasn't taken it up yet but you and I both know how that will turn out.
the lessons of the 18th are vast. unfortunately few of our bloviating lawmakers today seem unable (or unwilling) to learn that using words like 'ban' in a law will almost always create more far more problems than they solve. oh well, petty dictators have always reveled in keeping people down. (I bet THG could compile a much larger list than I could)
It's just a shame that so many Governors today seem to have failed to learn anything from this period.
thank you, for your entertaining snippets, you are engaging and professional and should be proud of your channel.
@@new-lviv I like that saying
Anyone know why it took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol (controlled substance) but now we feel like we can just ban any drug all Willy nilly.
Because they hadn't found prisons quite so lucrative then.
@@vespelian5769 there's a lot to what you say. But don't forget the usefulness of demonizing your political opponents as drug addicts and lowlifes in general per Richard Nixon.
@@dbmail545 We used to get pot from Mexico, Jamaica, and the best ever came from Panama & was called Panama Red.
@@TranscendianIntendor
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Alcohol had been a staple of almost all civilizations throughout history, and was implicitly approved by the original Constitution. Also, import tariffs and tax on alcohol were the primary means of financing the federal government until the 16th Amendment passed in 1913, authorizing the income tax (the Union passed one to finance the Civil War, but it was repealed afterward, and it would have been struck down anyway, since it was a direct tax NOT apportioned among the states by population, which is why an amendment was needed).
Essentially, the 13th Amendment made the 18th financially feasible. And the pressure to allow women to vote made it political suicide at the time to oppose the Amendment; the 19th Amendment was passed about a year after the 18th!
As for “other” drugs, that was partly based on racism (Mexicans liked pot, inner city black men, especially jazz musicians, liked heroin), and partly due to the repeal of Prohibition putting smugglers, bootleggers, and enforcement police out of work.
I like the wine brick, lol. Warning: absolutely do not do this precise series of actions that'll turn it into wine.
On the back of brewery produced yeast kits there would be step-by-step instructions of what NOT to do "otherwise an illegal intoxicating beverage may result".
Just like the explanation for what not to do to fire an anti-aircraft gun in the movie "1941"
@@ewhartiii
Exactly, I was thinking about that as I wrote about the yeast boxes.
@@txgunguy2766 An old rime my mother passed on to me:
Mama's in the kitchen, washing out the jugs;
Papa's in the laundry, bottling the suds;
Tommy's in the basement, checking on the hops;
Sister's on the front porch, watching for the cops.
I know of speak easy restaurants
This channel is awesome. Very entertaining, and I actually learn stuff! Thanks THG!
I've been to the "Mob Museum" in Las Vegas, it's definitely a "must see" spot if you're in town.
The next stop in L V >>> thesourcenv.com/dispensary-menu/
Their cinnamon flavored "home brew" is pretty tasty!
I personally don't drink alcoholic beverages but will defend with my life your right to do so!
Enjoy.
I thought the mob museum was centred in the White House.
@@chuckh5999 😆😆😆😆
Women in the Temperance Movements: *Lobby to get to prohibition out into place.*
*Drinking becomes common among women in the Prohibition era in speakeasys.*
Women in the Temperance Movement: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
Temperance in and of itself isn’t bad.
Teetotalers were fucking idiots though.
@@alexanderstrickland9036 Moderation of course.
Bad ideas never die, as proven by Nixon's "war on drugs". Almost as if Prohibition never happened to prove the futility outlawing something that was widely popular.
Better to have a "sin tax" to generate revenue than to try to legislate morality... and fail, IMHO.
@@avgj0378 The value of sin taxes depends on the product. Cigarette smoking has declined, reducing the amount of taxes raised. Increasing taxes pushes smoking down further. In some states, taxes on cannabis makes illegal weed cheaper, helping to prop up the illegal market.
@@brachiator1 Depends: what is the purpose of the sin tax? To raise revenue or reduce the sin? If the latter, reduced revenue means it is working. If the former, than it was all a bullshit money extraction scheme to begin with.
@@RCAvhstape People stopped smoking because of education campaigns and perhaps because of health insurance incentives and laws banning smoking. The ideal sin tax raises reliable revenues from something people will continue to do in substantial numbers.
@@brachiator1 No, the ideal sin tax makes people stop doing the harmful activity. If you tell me smoking is horrible and then pass a tax to make money off of smoking, you are horrible.
This evening I shall celebrate the occasion with either a single malt scotch or a limited batch bourbon. Decisions, decisions.
Ok stop with the bragging. I'm low on my Chateau Ste. Michelle. Oh wait!! I just remembered I still have a full bottle of Speyburn CHEERS MY FREN!
@@craffte Chateau Ste. Michelle -- Washington state REPRESENT!
@@MikeJBeebe oh no way didn't know!... Lovely
Decision! Er.....both....of course
I vote for the boxed wine. 😎
December 4th 2020: the United States House of Representatives will take up a vote on the MORE Act, which would officially decriminalize cannabis and clear the way to erase nonviolent federal marijuana convictions.
What a coincidence!
Except that McConnell will make sure it dies in the Senate.
Time can only tell.
So Karens have been around for a long time....
Of course, marriage, working husbands, and Syphilis were more of a thing back then.
There has always been someone that can tell you how to live your life.
And the first thing they did after getting the vote was to outlaw alcohol. And ironic that Prohibition actually "liberated" women to drink in speakeasies.
Perhaps now that after a century we can finally admit that, while well-intended, the 19th Amendment has utterly failed.
Goes way back. Karen is actually very recent but there are similar names like Becky, Patty, Trixie, and Caroline that fill a similar meaning.
Celebrate responsibility Repeal Day December 5th. Come to Vegas and I'll buy you a drink! Everyone (Domestic)
It's a shame that modern people can't remember the ramifications and unintended consequences that come along with a well intentioned progressive idea.
Conservatives have Failed our Great Nation.
Like making the citizenry defenseless against criminals and the government in the name of safety.
@@makeracistsafraidagain Neo-Cons and Neo-Liberals failed our nation. Leftists are annoying and need to mind their own business, primarily bc they don't know enough about themselves or their society - and they end up making things worse.
Conservatives true to the name just want to be left alone to live their lives and take care of their own business - rather than corporate war hawks ( which can't wait for more wars under Biden/Harris - should be a blast)
And regarding your name. The biggest racists in the U.S. are the people who want to divide us all up by outer identity and race - i.e. - leftists.
I've been "bootlegging" for years to friends of mine in dry southern counties of Kentucky. Their low taxes on tobacco products made for good trade with Tennessee.
You didn't mention the largest financial contributor to the Temperance movement. John D. Rockefeller. At that time period car would run on any fuel, most area started brewing there own gas, so to insure his monopoly of the fuel market, he financed the temperance movement to help them in starting prohibition. He also used his political connections to help it get passed.
At 2:57/58 in the video, the group of temperance women are the most sour faced people I have ever seen. Not a single smile to be seen. No Wonder their husbands drank.
"Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine". Men everywhere "Okay"
A great example of treating tangential effects instead of causes and blaming substances instead of man.
Perhaps we should make governmental corruption, overreach, and extralegal activities illegal as well.
Just like the gun control movement.
Me: drinking cheap scotch and coke everyday and celebrating.
You foul good Scotch with coke? BARBARIAN ! 😂😂😂
@@sinisterminister6478 Well, he did say cheap Scotch.
Hooray beer !🍻
@Timothy McCaskey What is it with brothers- inlaw? One of mine drank Scotch and coffee. And here's on for you, one of my brothers would have Ballantine's 18 year old over Butterscotch ice cream and wash it down with warm Heineken. I'm thoroughly convinced he was switched at birth.😂😂😂😂
Cheap scotch? Damn....sorry to hear that. It's typically sacrilege to put coke in scotch, but with cheap scotch you have no choice but to add coke
[Channels Drunk Uncle}: "See? THIS is what happens when ya give the vote to women!"
This nicely clarifies the reasoning behind prohibition. When my great grandfather came to New York in 1929, armed with a letter of introduction from William Randolph Hurst, he came specifically in search of speakeasies to write about in his newspaper column. In his book The American Ilusion 1929, he was surprised to find New Jersey operating as usual as though the Volstadt act did not exist. He travelled extensively throughout America - meeting Hurst and playing table tennis with him - and getting his book out just before the Wall Street crash.
Hearst.
I hope another prohibition ends soon....
The Feds have no business here. Give it back to the states like the regulation of alcohol.
It would be nice to get rid of the NFA
How about not being reliant on drugs to get you through life?
I remember drinking near beer when I was a youth. Kingsbury and O'Doul's were prevalent at those Dungeons & Dragons games!😸
I remember drinking an O'Doul's at a country club at 17. They would serve me because it was non-alcoholic. That lasted until some person saw a "kid" drinking a "real beer" and made a fuss. Turns out it has a tiny percentage and fell into some vague area. They stopped. Just as well.
i remember buying cases of 3.2 beer at 16 in South Dakota and at 18 have my first drink in a bar with real alcohol.....
I worked at a restaurant on a pier in lower alabama when I was in highschool.
A little old lady came in one day and ordered a o’douls saying ‘I’ve always been a lightweight but I’m getting drunk tonight’. Cracked me up
I am proud of my home and would love to see you pay The Granite Sate some attention. Perhaps the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 and the pivotal role the president of the United States played in the negotiation Sino nipple War would be worthy of your attention.
I raise a toast 🍷 to your excellent research and report. 🍺
As of when I started watching this video, it had 12 views and 18 likes. I suspect at least 6 of the "likers" suddenly realized how thirsty they were...
Sippin' brew for breakfast as I read this. " Rudey can't fail!"
January 17th...
So prohibition began on Al Capone's birthday?
Happy Birthday Al!
The 18th amendment was a bad idea. 😀👍
and another one! marijuana. house just voted to decriminalize
Criminals voted to decriminalize it.
This is a story that I would drink to 🤓🍻🥂🍺🍹🍸🍷🍾🥃🍼 What's your poison?
Gin straight up
Everclear, I use it as both a solvent and vodka base..lol
Riga Black Balsam
@Maria Kelly Heads up 7 Up!
I saw an image supposedly a prescription for alcohol for Winston Churchill during his visit in the US.
@Maria Kelly if my doctor wouldn't write me one, I would find another doctor!
I attended a competition in what proved to be a "Dry County" in the US... (Texas Panhandle) When we asked where one could go to purchase some booze we were directed to an extremely large liquor store...just over the County line... lol
Prohibition of alcohol or marijuana, gun control, opposition to same-sex marriage, and on and on--it's always the same: the meddlesome urge to control others.
Thank you for explaining "T Totaler " because for all my life I have thought it was Tea totaler.
I thought it was Totaller with a capital "T".
I wish he had spent more time explaining "T Totaler." I thought it was "tea" too.
These days it's written as "teetotaler."
@@james-p thank you. I still think of it at Tea-Totaler. LOL. Hard to change in my head.
Wikipedia (Teetotalism) explains the etymology of the term: "at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of total; the tee- is presumably a reduplication of the first letter of total, much as contemporary idiom today might say 'total with a capital T'."
5:55 Sam Elliott time traveling?
My mother and her family lived upstairs of her grandmother, who was a teetotaler and shaker. Her father use to make beer in a washing machine. One time he didn't make the beer right and the caps blew off the bottles and the foam ran down. Grandmother asked what the noise was, he said that he tipped a chair over.
Made a lot of batches of beer and that happens. Kick the mixture a tad "hot" while bottling ( too much sugar) or too warm a place for the bottles to sit and "carbonate" and this happens. The reason I don't brew any more is the lack of climate control where I live now. I'd be losing half my batches.
There's a Mob Museum in Las Vegas? I wonder who is funding that. :V
And thank Jimmy Carter for making home brewing legal in 1978 I believe.
PLEASE, when you drink, drink responsibly and recap the bottle to avoid evaporation. Remember , every drop is precious.
The same reasons apply for the war on drugs. And let's be honest - no people in their right mind would start using heroin, just because it got legalized..
According to chemistry, Alchohol is a solution.
LMAO!!
Last time i was this early i was waiting on the pick up from Canada.
War on drugs: we lost: history we repeated?
Thank Richard Nixon who wanted to find a way to imprison and quiet his political opposition.
Another great history lesson! I’ll be sure to fly my flag tomorrow and roast Repeal Day!
That’s why the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth rock instead of going further south to warmer weather. They ran out of beer… Check out the series from Mike Rowe, “How Booze Built America”. Its really good!
One would think that the prohibition experiment would referenced in the modern prohibition of marijuana. Making something illegal doesn't make it go away. It just spawns organised crime.
Quick correction from a Minnesotan: Andrew Volstead was a member of the US House of Representatives, not a senator. Otherwise great video!
Yah?. Ah chees.
My home county remained dry until the early 1970s.
@@gooser__43 I said county, not country. I was born and raised in north Florida.
@@gooser__43 Well, to some visitors it probably seemed like a foreign country. Think Mayberry.
The town I live in was the largest dry city in the state of Alabama until ten years ago. It has been a boom for the city.
@@Paladin1873 yes my home County was dry until almost Ten yrs ago..s.east as well
The greatest proof that you can not legislate morality.
Proof?. I see what you did there. Clever.
They managed it in Saudi Arabia
@@maddyg3208 No they haven't. It's just very well hidden. Or in the case of the rich and powerful it's purposely overlooked
I found an old prohibition era liquor bottle buried in the dirt on a jobsite. It was fully intact too! It actually has raised lettering on the glass that states it is for "medicinal use only" lol.
I read that during Prohibition Stroh's Brewing in Detroit made ice cream.
One of many that did. Yeungling's (sp?) did and went back to beer afterwards and still is brewing. Same family owns it yet to this day.
Now I have Spike Jones' "Cocktails for Two" stuck in my head.
I subscribe to get the history they don't teach me in school you our history is getting more common
My father made whiskey back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s and a couple times when I was a kid in the 70s. My uncle, my mothers brother, served 2 years on the county chain gang for making and hauling whiskey. He said it was actually the easiest 2 years of his life. Nothing like the hollywood movies.
Let's all raise a glass for Repeal Day! 🍻
🍻
I'll drink to that!
The pictures in the video show attractive women drinking and “5 drink” women opposed to drinking. Did that effect the birth rate among later group?
IMHO, all of the mass produced beer in the US is still 'near' beer, step out to most any other country, you discover real beer...
If you're still stuck in 1980 sure. But we've had a huge variety of craft breweries making every kind of beer known to man for quite some time.
@@kaminsod4077 Is why I said, mass produced, the craft brews are on or above par of a few of the European's(warning, steer clear of Eischbaum bier in Germany, it seems to have been the bier Vietnam's, Bomb B Bomb brews formula, nasty formaldehyde back taste with headaches to ensue)
I've been celebrating repeal day since the pandemic started, in order to train for today!
I was in an Irish bar once and the guitarist/singer stopped in the middle of his song as two woman came out of the ladies room, one of them helping the other, who was clearly smashed and had obviously been puking. After they walked out the door, the singer looked at the crowd and said, "Let that be a lesson to you, folks: If you're going to drink, you have to practice!" And thus he went back to singing and we went back to drinking.
@@RCAvhstape Which reminds me of what I used to say on St. Patrick's Day when I lived in San Francisco and was out drinking almost every night: "I'm staying home. Too many amateurs out there tonight."
Before full repeal, Congress amended the Volstead act to define "intoxicating" as 3.2 percent, not 0.5, thus allowing weak beer to be sold. Many states' legal drinking age before prohibition was 18. When full repeal finally passed, many of those same states set the age for purchase of anything stronger at 21, and distinction remained until a couple of decades ago. That's why 3.2 beer became a staple of the college (and high school) parties in many places, including Colorado and Ohio..
I still don’t understand why that came about. Straw purchases of alcohol are so easy. Maybe back then there were no random guys at gas stations or liquor stores that you could bribe with $5?
Woooww cool fact!
@@alexanderstrickland9036 Mothers Against Drunk Driving put immense pressure on Congress which responded by raising the drinking age to 21 nationwide. They couldn't do it directly, so they blackmailed the states by threatening to withhold highway funds for states that didn't comply.
@@scarter727 I meant more why I didn’t understand why college kids bought the weaker beer instead of the stronger illegal stuff through straw purchases
@@alexanderstrickland9036 The Sink and Tulagi. If you were 19, wouldn't you rather go here than drink in your room? ruclips.net/video/OgnY98vWZgA/видео.html
A good friend of mine actually works for Coors Ceramics, and I had always wondered if there was a connection to the other, better known, Coors. And now I know and it makes perfect sense too! Thanks History Guy!
I know the Coors brewery is in Golden, Colorado. Not too far from where I grew up. If the Ceramics place your friend works at is somewhere near there it's certainly possible. 🙂
Here in Chicago there are a lots of pubs and bars that say “established 1933” or 1934. They are all ex-speakeasies. My local pub was a “soft drinks bar” where you could get non alcoholic drinks. But if you knew the person they would take you out in the alley down a stair case to the basement were the hard stuff (made on the second floor) was sold.
One of the local distilleries (FEW Sprits) is ironically named after one of Chicago’s temperance leaders Frances Elizabeth Willard
🤣 Revenge by honoring. She's whirling in her grave.
Anslinger is a good strain of Cannabis same thing !
This is one of the reasons I hate "do good" programs and government heavy handed interference in social norms. It never works they way you think it will.
Tobacco tax in a nutshell.
@@johnbarber4549 Great point! The Tobacco tax was supposed to punish vice until the government started to depend on it. Now they need more smokers because they are addicted to the tax revenue!!
There are still “Dry towns “ in New Jersey. Thank you for your videos.
IIRC, the county where Lynchburg, TN is located is a dry county. The only thing you can sample at the Jack Daniel's Distillery is the famed Lynchburg Lemonade. Although you are encouraged to sample Jack Daniel's where it legal to do so.
In Utah you still can't buy booze after 9:00 PM!
And you smoke outside..lol
@@MausMasher54 Smoke what? I haven't smoked cigarettes in over 30 years! It's legal in Las Vegas and Nevada for recreational and medical marijuana! That's a different story! Or is it?
@Maria Kelly LOL, yes they do, hidden on the outskirts, last time I passed thru on I-15..
Unless you join a club 🥃🍺🍾
I'm surprised that heavily Mormon influenced state voted to repeal Prohibition.
Let's celebrate with another one. Legalize it.
We did that a long time ago in California. Your state should come around soon... if you work for it. Don't wait for other people to do it.
The House of Representatives just passed a bill to do just that. But it will most likely not make it through the Senate.
I wonder if we'll have a repeal day for lock-downs.
I'm sure the three covid patients I transported day before yesterday and the one I transported yesterday would be happy to support you... assuming they survive.
I wonder how many people who ignore lockdown die every day.
@@LetsTakeWalk There’s a definition for those people, they’re called essential workers. They have been working every day since this crap began back in February.
@@HM2SGT Your virtue signaling is funny considering even the CDC says there’s a 99.5+ chance they will recover, so yeah, they would.
@@LetsTakeWalk You should be asking how many people die everyday. According to the CDC the numbers are the same as before COVID-19. If you want to stay home for the rest of your life, you are free to do so as long as you can afford it. Few people have this option and few desire it. Calculated risks are a part of life.
I was born in 1955, 20 shopping days before Christmas!
December 5th!
I knew there was prohibition in the US, I knew when it was. After that THG was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel here. If I retain 10% of a THG video, I'll probably be 90% better informed than I was...
Thanks THG.
Great synopsis of the subject. It took me nearly a lifetime of drinking to decide its not for me. Don't miss it a bit. (Well, that occasional glass of a good red...)
Good to hear you gave it up. It must have been hard.
Apparently, my Mayflower ancestor, Stephen Hopkins, was fined at least twice for not only allowing drunkenness in his Plimoth home, but overcharging for the alcohol! I'm so proud...lol
"How Big Oil Conquered the World" at CorbettReport(.)com > Rockefeller funded the temperance movement to stop farmers from brewing ethanol to run their Ford tractors and Model T trucks, forcing their 90% Standard Oil monopoly on petroleum
That Coors ceramic was used in Project Pluto, which was a nuclear-powered cruise missile designed to stay aloft for weeks or even months during and after a nuclear war, flying over and dropping 1mt warheads on enemy targets, all the while moving at Mach 3+. The engine needed to function at extremely high temperature for months (potentially); the fuel elements were clad in high grade ceramic to prevent their melting, and the Adolph Coors company produced the ceramic cladding for the lone example of the engine that was produced (and successfully stand-tested).
A couple of peripheral prohibition stories....
Howard Hughes was one of those who stockpiled liquor at the onset of prohibition. His father had bought out the entire stock of the Rice Hotel bar in Houston. In his book "Howard--The Amazing Mr. Hughes" (1972), Hughes executive/factotum Noah Dietrich describes his adventures moving this huge quantity of booze from Texas to California.
In Al-Capone-era Chicago, the gangs hired the poor to produce alcohol on mini-stills in their tenements all over Little Italy. They gave the police a list of their still locations, and if the police found one not on the list, they busted it with full publicity. This helped cut down on competition. In return, the police gave the mob a list of participating badge numbers, and if someone not on the list tried to collect graft or cause trouble, they were turned in--or dissuaded in other ways. A classic symbiotic relationship.
And in the 1960's my high-school history teacher told us about a sign he saw at a roadside restaurant in rural Alabama in the 1920's: "Near Beer Here; Real Beer Near Here."
Added in edit: Prohibition also had serious public health consequences. The available black-market alcohol was often not very good quality; and it might be adulterated with wood alcohol, rubbing alcohol, etc. People also drank stuff like hair tonic and various patent medicines, and there were a lot of poisonings and deaths.
Moonshine whisky was often distilled through car radiators, causing cumulative lead poisoning and kidney failure. This was a problem long after prohibition, particularly in the Southern states. I remember seeing public health posters in high school in the 1960s: "Avoid deadly moonshine whisky."
Cheers.
How about a show about the battle of Blair mountain and or the coal wars of West Virginia. Very interesting that it’s the only instance of US military about to airplanes against its own citizens till inclemental weather turned them around.
my favorite bit of Prohibition related history is that of the connection of Al Capone
and his 'One city, Two countries scheme' along the southern Texas border with Mexico, and the state of Tamaulipas. a stone's throw across the Rio Grande River (Río Bravo del Norte) that outlets into the Gulf of Mexico was the prime location for the famed bootlegger. not only was Tamaulipus right with alcohol it was a gambler's haven and bars and all sorts of gambling Opportunities most notably ground hound races, and brothels. The U.S. city of Rio Rico was in 1906 a U.S. held territory across the river south of Mercedes and east of Nuevo Progreso and a two-lane suspension bridge from Thayer to the town of Rio Rico, south of Mercedes and east of Nuevo Progreso. A 10-cent bridge toll allowed visitors to a recreational center of gambling and drinking with rumors of connections to organized crime leaders like Al Capone. (source The Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg TX, which is the County set of Hidalgo County)
I adore this comment section. I'm knitting you all ugly Christmas sweaters right now. Everybody gets a stocking filled with baby bottles of booze!
Great video, I went to the Mob Museum in Downtown Vegas, I always stay at the El Cortez, great Hotel / Casino once owned by Bugsy Segal, the restaurant is called Segal's. Great Hotel 2 blocks from the Mob Museum and cheaper than the Strip Hotels by far, NO Resort Fee! What is cool is they have some of the old Slot Machines that use quarters, check it out.
200 proof alcohol or 100% alcohol isn't really possible from a home still. The highest that a home still can achieve if you really really know what you are doing is 90%-96% if your really lucky. Your really looking at mid 80's maximum on a good day with repeated distillations.