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Born in the Cumberland mill village of Valley Falls, Walsh was a clerk in a Pawtucket hardware store before he entered bootlegging in 1920. First driving alcohol shipments for other local bootleggers, by the mid-1920s, he had established a formidable bootlegging operation which included planes, automobiles and a fleet of boats, one of them the legendary rum-runner called the "Black Duck ...
WJEM (1150 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Valdosta, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Smalltown Broadcasting, LLC. [3] The station began broadcasting in August 1955. [1]
The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 75-foot patrol boats (also called "Six-Bitters") were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers ("rum runners"). Their nickname was derived from the slang term "six bits" meaning 75 U.S. cents.
A rum runner is a person or ship engaged in the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages. Rum Runner may also refer to: Go-fast boat, a type of boat used for smuggling illicit alcoholic potables; Rum Runner (nightclub), a nightclub in Birmingham, England
I was a rum runner. Lescarbot Printing Ltd. 1979. Montague, Art. Canada's Rumrunners: Incredible Adventures and Exploits During Canada's Illicit Liquor Trade. Altitude Publishing Canada. 2004. ISBN 1-55153-947-0. Moray, Alastair. The diary of a rum-runner. P. Allan & Co. Ltd. 1929, Reprint in 2006. ISBN 0-9773725-6-1; Snow, Nicholas.
The group became the resident band at the club. After playing their 1983 charity concert at Villa Park, they held the afterparty at the Rum Runner. [5] In 2006 John Taylor and Nick Rhodes released a compilation album entitled Only After Dark, featuring their favourite songs from the Rum Runner playlist. [6]
The 2024 Valdosta State Blazers football team represented Valdosta State University as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 2024 NCAA Division II football season and played their home games at Bazemore–Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, Georgia.
Infamous rum-runner that eluded US Coast Guard for 13 yrs. 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.