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On January 17, 1920, the United States officially entered a 13-year period known as “Prohibition.” Prohibition, was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages. During this period, the production, importation, distribution, and sale of alcohol, with few exceptions, was against the law.
The booze kept flowing however, as some enterprising individuals took it upon themselves to illegally brew and distribute the stuff themselves. But the authorities were on to them, and cracking down hard. To evade detection and throw authorities off their trail, some moonshiners had to get pretty clever…
A captured cow shoe on display
Music Credits:
- “[AI Music] Eminem – Say No To Drugs” – synthesized by 30 Hertz
- “The Mooche” – Marc Shaiman (from Addams Family), 1991 (adapted from Duke Ellington’s “The Mooche”)
- “Aquarius” – Cal Tjader (from the album The Prophet), 1969
- “The Alcoholic Blues” – Billy Murray (written by Albert Von Tilzer / Edward Laska), 1919
- “It Was a Very Good Beer” – The Simpsons (from the album Songs in the Key of Springfield), 1997
- “Pure Inebriation” – Family Guy (from the episode Wasted Talent), 1999
- “The Beer Song” – Unknown (attributed by some to Weird Al Yankovic)
- All other music from the YouTube Audio Library and the Immortal Soles Podcast
