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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri : highballs, spooners & crooked dice / John Simonson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simonson, John, author.
- Series:
- American Palate Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prohibition--Missouri--Kansas City.
- Kansas City (Mo.)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (156 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : American Palate, [2018]
- Summary:
- Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers.But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. John Barleycorn is (Not Quite) Dead
- 2. King of the Bootleggers
- 816 East Armour Boulevard
- 2101 Central Avenue
- 520 Gillis Street
- 1321 Virginia Avenue
- 1205 Independence Avenue
- 2932 Fairmount Avenue
- 1141 East Fifth Street
- 823 Walnut Street
- 1913 Broadway
- 803 Walnut Street
- 3. Four Highballs
- 1131 East Thirty-First Street
- 423 Southwest Boulevard
- 818 Baltimore Avenue
- 3403 West Fifty-Third Street
- 618 West Forty-Eighth Street
- 927 McGee Street
- 6151 Paseo Boulevard
- 4. Greed, Vice and Sensuality
- 205 East Ninth Street
- 104 West Ninth Street
- 500 Walnut Street
- 525 Gillis Street
- 122 West Eighteenth Street
- 3504 Troost Avenue
- 523 West Twelfth Street
- 30 West Pershing Road
- 416 East Fifth Street
- 5907 Main Street
- 429 Walnut Street
- 1516 East Eighteenth Street
- 5. Yokels AND High Rollers
- 2020 Main Street
- 1922 Main Street
- 1900 Main Street
- 1114 Baltimore Avenue
- 100 West Twelfth Street
- 1210 Baltimore Avenue
- 1228 Baltimore Avenue
- 6. Let Us Dare to Do Our Duty
- 207 Southwest Boulevard
- 315 Cherry Street
- 1519 Main Street
- 1311 East Thirteenth Street
- 103 West Nineteenth Street
- 1016 West Twenty-Fourth Street
- 1809 Grand Boulevard
- 1608 Main Street
- 406 East Eighteenth Street
- 2860 Southwest Boulevard
- Third and Locust Streets
- 7. Something More Than Beer
- 109 West Eighteenth Street
- 1717 West Ninth Street
- 7321 East Fifteenth Street
- 1822 Vine Street
- 1414 East Fifteenth Street
- 1706 Baltimore Avenue
- 8. Wet And Wicked
- A Few Postscripts
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4396-6413-7
- OCLC:
- 1145561621
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