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Author: Michael T. Walsh Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439663572 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Explore the fasciniating history of Prohibition in one of the places where it was most defied-- Baltimore, Maryland. There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.
Author: Michael T. Walsh Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439663572 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Explore the fasciniating history of Prohibition in one of the places where it was most defied-- Baltimore, Maryland. There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.
Author: Matthew A. Crenson Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421422069 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 627
Book Description
Chapter 35. Slow-Motion Race Riot -- Chapter 36. Racial Breakdown -- XI. REVISIONING BALTIMORE -- Chapter 37. Baltimore's Best -- Chapter 38. Driving the City -- Chapter 39. Turning Point -- Afterword: Not Yet History -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Population, Race, and Nativity, Baltimore, 1790-2000 -- Appendix B. Baltimore Mayors, 1797-2017 -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Author: Edward Behr Publisher: Arcade Publishing ISBN: 9781559703567 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
America in the 19th century was a free-wheeling, hard-drinking land. As the cenury waned, several crusading forces increasingly demanded an end to intemperance, seeking abolition of "the Devil's brew". Here is the full rollicking story of Prohibition, from speakeasies to the St. Valentine's Day massacre, from gangsters and bootleggers to teetotaler Henry Ford. Soon to be the basis for a major three-part TV series. Photos.
Author: Lauren R. Silberman Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614232695 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 135
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Detailing the salacious history of Baltimore and its denizens from the city's earliest history up to and through Prohibition. With nicknames such as "Mob Town" and "Syphilis City," no one would deny that Baltimore has its dark side. Before shows such as "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Streets" brought the city's crime rate to national attention, locals entertained themselves with rumors surrounding the mysterious death of writer Edgar Allan Poe and stories about Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who spent time in a Baltimore area sanitarium in the 1930s. Tourists make the Inner Harbor one of the most traveled areas in the country, but if they would venture a few streets north to The Block on Baltimore Street they would see an area once famous for its burlesque shows. It is only the locals who would know to continue north on St. Paul to the Owl Bar, a former speakeasy that still proudly displays some of its Prohibition era paraphernalia.
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