dyskomike:

the1920sinpictures:

June 30, 1919 A crowded bar at midnight, just as Prohibition went into effect! From New York City Images:1850-1980, FB.

“Governor Smith is personally, ecclesiastically, aggressively,
irreconcilably Wet, and is ineradicably Tammany-branded, with all the
inferences and implications and objectionable consequences which
naturally follow from such views and associations.”

–– Thoughts on the Tammany Machine by James Cannon Jr.