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A rum row was a Prohibition-era term (1920–1933) referring to a line of ships loaded with liquor anchored beyond the maritime limit of the United States. These ships taunted the Eighteenth Amendment ’s prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages . [ 1 ]
Rum Row was not the only front for the Coast Guard. Rum-runners often made the trip through Canada via the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway and down the west coast to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Rum-running from Canada was also an issue, especially throughout prohibition in the early 1900s. There was a high number of distilleries in ...
Malahat, a large 5-masted lumber schooner from Vancouver, BC, was known as "the Queen of Rum Row" in her day. [2] She became famous (or infamous) [3] for rum-running on the US Pacific Coast between 1920 and 1933. The Vancouver Maritime Museum says that Malahat delivered "more contraband liquor than any other ship." [4]
William Frederick "Bill" McCoy (August 17, 1877 – December 30, 1948), was an American sea captain and rum-runner during the Prohibition in the United States.In pursuing the trade of smuggling alcohol from the Bahamas to the Eastern Seaboard, Capt. McCoy, [1] found a role model in John Hancock of pre-revolutionary Boston and considered himself an "honest lawbreaker."
Lythgoe proposed the idea of entering the rum trade to her company A. L. William Co, which granted her representative of their dealings in that area, giving her full control over their involvement in the rum trade. [2] She moved to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas and the rum trade, in 1922. [3] A photo of Gertrude Lythgoe with the captain of ...
Gourmets can't visit New Orleans without stopping by Pat O'Brien's for an authentic sweet rum drink. The large souvenir glass for $13.50 is more than enough to split with a buddy.
This stretch of E Street was known as Rum Row for its abundance of drinking establishments. [2] Shoomaker's or Shoo's as it was known, was purchased by Democratic lobbyist Colonel Joseph Rickey in 1883 after the deaths of Herzog and Shoomaker. In 1909, writer Elbert Hubbard described Shoomaker's in detail saying:
Though statewide row offices don't generate the buzz of a presidential or gubernatorial race, time and again they've served as proving grounds. What history tells us about Pa. row offices, and why ...