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 But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonso... Read More
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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 But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonso... Read More
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 But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.
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Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: American Palate
Publication Date: 5th March 2018
State: Missouri
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467138710
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) TRUE CRIME / General PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
Author Bio
John Simonson's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, websites, corporate publications, museum exhibits, jazz recordings and beyond. His blog, Paris of the Plains, became the basis for Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways, published in 2010 by The History Press. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.
Pages: 160
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: American Palate
Publication Date: 5th March 2018
State: Missouri
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467138710
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) TRUE CRIME / General PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
John Simonson's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, websites, corporate publications, museum exhibits, jazz recordings and beyond. His blog, Paris of the Plains, became the basis for Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways, published in 2010 by The History Press. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
