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Prohibition Madness - Life AND Death in and Around Long Beach, California, 1920-1933 (Paperback)
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Prohibition Madness - Life AND Death in and Around Long Beach, California, 1920-1933 (Paperback)
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Throughout America cocktail parties sparkled defiantly through the
dreaded first minutes of January 20, 1920. With morning would come
the official start of Prohibition. It was easy, however, to keep
the party going in Long Beach, California. Though Long Beach had
been "dry" throughout most of its history, illegal liquor
distribution throughout the city was already perfected by the time
the 18th Amendment, banning the sale of most alcoholic beverages,
became law. Already in place were underground booze operations,
secretive speakeasies and bootlegging, the perfect staging ground
for crime, corruption AND murder. READ ABOUT: Oil - The one
discovery that made Long Beach different from the rest of 1920's
and 30's America and would change the life of the city in many
unforeseen ways. Good vs. Evil - Murders, gun battles, lawlessness
...the city was a battleground between the influences of good and
evil. Involved in the battle was the Ku Klux Klan, Communists, rum
runners, bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians. MEET:
Hollywood celebrities William Desmond Taylor, Fatty Arbuckle and
other well-known figures who ended up dead, or their careers
ruined, because of rampant corruption and illicit booze. Gangsters
such as Al Capone's henchman Ralph Sheldon, who gunned down Long
Beach policeman William Waggoner, and got away with it. Bootleggers
like Thomas Johnstone, murdered by his wife when he refused to give
up his nefarious profession. Oil swindlers, many influenced by C.C.
Julian and his Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands out of their life
savings. Murderers such as Bluebeard Watson, who killed most of his
15 wives until one of them became suspicious. These are just a few
of the individuals and matters discussed in this eye opening
account of Long Beach and Southern California during the 1920's and
30's.
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