Repeal Day – Prohibition Ended 0
On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified ending Prohibition. I’ll drink to that!
As you remember, the 18th Amendment had been ratified in 1919 making alcohol illegal. Between 1919 and 1933 all production, trafficking, and use of alcohol was illegal, which lead to speakeasies (illegal bars), bootlegging, and organized crime.
Learn more about the men who enforced prohibition on tirial‘s lens, The Untouchables – Eliot Ness and Prohibition.
Some breweries made it through prohibition. Yuengling, America’s Oldest Brewery turned to making “near beer” and opening a dairy to supplement income during prohibition, but went back to their passion in 1933 – in fact they sent President Roosevelt a truck load of beer when prohibition was ended!
(Photo by star5112)
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