A few weeks ago I was talking about Prohibition on the air. Someone sent me a fascinating photograph of a pair of shoes with "animal hooves" on them. The men making illegal booze would wear these on their feet to mask their footprints up to their stills...
2013 marks the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. It is hard to imagine this ever taking place in today's society, but it did seize the nation in 1919. While it was going strong for a number of years, the onset of the Depression really began Prohibition's downfall (read: America needed a drink)...