One small boat, a single outboard motor: the only perceptible evidence of a clandestine Prohibition transaction on the shores of Detroit, in the dead of night. In winter, members of the notorious ...

DETROIT – The Prohibition Era in Detroit was a wild time, to say the least. Although the start of national Prohibition was on Jan. 17, 1920, in Michigan, the ban of alcohol was old news.

DETROIT – During the Prohibition era, Detroit’s underground booze business exploded. National Prohibition started in 1920, but Michigan actually banned alcohol three years prior, giving ...

Prohibition, then, pointed the barrel toward the working-class way of life in particular and fueled some serious Detroit defiance. Saloon beer before Prohibition had cost about five cents a glass ...

He cites a number commonly circulated among historians – about 75 percent of the alcohol consumed in the United States during Prohibition came through Detroit. The Canadian province of Ontario ...

July 1930. Unemployment rates in Detroit were at a staggering 34 percent. Prohibition was law, if a poorly enforced law. The city reeled under a heat wave worse than any it had experienced in decades.

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit City Councilwoman Angela Whitfield-Calloway is taking a stance against dollar stores. She says there’s way too many of them in the area ...

"Detroiters released a collective sigh of relief" when Prohibition was finally repealed, the Detroit Historical Society said, giving a historical account. Utah was the state that ratified the 21st ...

A little over 100 years ago, Detroit stood as the first major U.S. city to instate Prohibition, a complete criminalization of alcohol and those who distribute and consume it, which lasted more ...

One small boat, a single outboard motor: the only perceptible evidence of a clandestine Prohibition transaction on the shores of Detroit, in the dead of night. In winter, members of the notorious ...

One small boat, a single outboard motor: the only perceptible evidence of a clandestine Prohibition transaction on the shores of Detroit, in the dead of night. In winter, members of the notorious ...