On Feb. 11, 1932, news photographer Leslie Jones watched federal agents dismantle an illegal speakeasy, "the most elaborate joint ever built in Boston," at the corner of Causeway and Haverhill streets, across from the Garden and North Station.
About a year and half later, on Dec. 5, 1933, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring the end of Prohibition - an era that in Boston spawned hundreds of illegal speakeasies, local gangsters and a corrupt Vice Squad cop.
Photo from the BPL's Leslie Jones collection, posted under this Creative Commons license.
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Repeal Day
By FenRes
Sat, 12/05/2015 - 6:30pm
Repeal Day is celebrated every year at the Gibson House Museum on Beacon Street, with a cocktail party to benefit the museum. (This year's benefit was Friday night, make note of this for next year!) Charlie Gibson, the last member of the Boston Brahmin family to live at the house, was famous for hosting bathtub gin parties during prohibition. (He also designed the granite octagon-shaped building on the Common (not far from the bandstand) that is now a sandwich shop.
Need to visit this...
By Michael Kerpan
Sat, 12/05/2015 - 8:09pm
... when I have more time (after I retire).
nice!
By Malcolm Tucker
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 12:41am
An ex took me there for an early date once (not on Repeal Day, alas - that would have been really fun), and I discovered that I share an ancestor with the Gibsons. I've always joked that my family is so old money that we don't have the money anymore - but then I found proof!
Open House Next Sunday
By FenRes
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 8:01am
Though I highly recommend a regularly scheduled tour to get the full experience, three of the four public floors will be open 12/13 in the afternoon.
Great news
By bohemka
Sat, 12/05/2015 - 7:24pm
I cannot wait until Massachusetts lawmakers hear that prohibition has ended.
Breaing up is hard to do
By mg
Sat, 12/05/2015 - 9:15pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQD3At3E7TA
I'm told that J.J. Foley's Cafe in the South End operated as
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 1:03am
a suspiciously popular shoe store during Prohibition. I presume that was a benefit of cultivating the custom of the BPD.
what's suspicious about a popular shoe store?
By Malcolm Tucker
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 1:05am
[img]http://www.poppyloves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/201...
Let's not forget Melvin Drug on Comm. Ave. in Brighton
By adamg
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 1:25am
Which sold "medicinal alcohol" during Prohibition - and continued to do so long after Prohibition ended (hmm, do they still do so?).
And it looks like some of its
By maria c
Sun, 12/06/2015 - 8:59am
And it looks like some of its patrons turned into zombies and still stumble around the same location, up and down causeway. LOL
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