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Baltimore prohibition : wet and dry in the Free State /
- Title
- Baltimore prohibition : wet and dry in the Free State / Michael T. Walsh.
- Author
- Walsh, Michael T.,
- Publication
- [Charleston, SC] : American Palate, a division of The History Press, 2017.
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- Description
- 191 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.
- Alternative Title
- Wet & dry in the Free State
- Wet and dry in the Free State
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-185) and index.
- Contents
- Prohibition in the "Free State" -- "Closing Time!": the enactment of Prohibition -- Sociocultural impacts of Prohibition -- "Free State" economics and public health debates -- Crime in Jazz Age Baltimore -- The politics of Prohibition -- Terminating the "Noble Experiment".
- ISBN
- 9781625858429
- 1625858426
- LCCN
- 2017953985
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library