- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- COOKING / Beverages / Beer
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- COOKING / Beverages / Beer
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
Prohibition on the North Jersey Shore
9781609490591
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Many of the North Jersey Shore towns we know today began as quiet retreats for pious New Yorkers wishing to escape the vice and crime of the city.
Towns such as Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Red Bank, and Atlantic Highlands all got their start like this, but with the passage of Prohibition in 1919, the region became a haven for criminals who began smuggling liquor through the serene seaside. Speakeasies sprang up on virtually every corner, as gangsters like Vito Genovese, Charles "Lucky'? Luciano, and Meyer Lansky ruled this brutal underworld, while civilians were caught in the crossfire of gun battles between rival syndicates. Discover the true drama that captured the Jersey Shore during Prohibition.
Prohibition in Washington, D.C.:
9781609492366
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Pittsburgh Drinks
9781467137782
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails.
In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust café culture along Diamond Street. Disco clubs gripped the city in the 1970s, and a music-centered nightlife began to grow in Oakland with such clubs as the Electric Banana. Today, pioneering mixologists are forging a new and exciting bar revival in the South Side and throughout the city. Pull up a stool and join Cody McDevitt and Sean Enright as they trace the history of Steel City drinking, along with a host of delicious cocktail recipes.
Prohibition Pittsburgh
9781467136624
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Bootlegging, bombs, murder, and more... all for the price of a drink. This is the history of Prohibition in Pittsburgh.
When you work hard, you play hard, and Pittsburgh is a hardworking city. So, when Prohibition hit the Steel City, it created a level of violence and corruption residents had never witnessed. Illegal producers ran stills in kitchens, basements, bathroom tubs, warehouses and even abandoned distilleries. War between gangs of bootleggers resulted in a number of murders and bombings that placed Pittsburgh on the same level as New York City and Chicago in criminal activity. John Bazzano ordered the killing of the Volpe brothers but did so without the permission of Mafia bosses; his battered body was later found on the street in Brooklyn. Author Richard Gazarik details the shady side of the Steel City during a tumultuous era.
Forgotten Maryland Cocktails:
9781626198562
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Southside, Diamondback and the Preakness - Marylanders imbibe history in their native cocktails, from local favorites to little-known classics.
Early residents favored fruit brandies and potent punches until the Civil War, when rye whiskey laid claim to local palates. During the golden age of the cocktail, grand hotels like Baltimore's Belvedere created smooth concoctions such as the Frozen Rye, but the dry days of Prohibition interrupted the good times. Using historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe mix up one part practical guide and three parts Maryland history and top it off with a tour of the current craft cocktail and distilling scenes.
Baltimore Prohibition
9781625858429
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explore the fasciniating history of Prohibition in one of the places where it was most defied-- Baltimore, Maryland.
There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.