Repeal Day Detroit
is December 5, 2012 at The Sugar House
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Since its founding in 1701, Detroit’s history has been thoroughly wet — rough, bloody, and dissolute, but uninterrupted, despite the best efforts of Jesuits, Yankee Puritans, preachers, Temperance activists, and two legal Prohibitions.
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Prohibition officers raiding the largest distillery ever found in Detroit. January 5th, 1931
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It was absolutely impossible to get a drink in Detroit unless you walked at least ten feet and told the busy bartender what you wanted in a voice loud enough for him to hear you above the uproar.Malcolm Bingay, Detroit is My Own Home Town, 1946
