The money, cigars, and liquor show the lavish lifestyle that gangsters in this era lived. They made most of their money from the illegal distribution of alcohol during the prohibition. Many of the gangsters had to launder their money to evade being caught by the FBI.

That's One Way to Think of Alcohol - Video and Pics of FAILS from the night life and party scenes of the world.

Earlier this winter I backslid (backslud? backslided?) on a collection that I had disposed of six or eight years ago. In the late 1990s, about the time I discovered eBay, I began a collection of memorabilia related to the thoroughbred champion Twenty Grand. The collection began at a Chattanooga antique mall where I found a large, about 2' x 3' cardboard advertising display sign for Twenty Grand cigarettes. The thick cardboard sign had a self-folding "frame" and a large color portrait of the…

Protesting amendment 18

Ninety years ago, there were hundreds of illegal drinking spots in New York, and the speakeasies - which were often just a hidden room with barely drinkable booze - were mostly run by gangsters.

It wasn’t just speakeasies, everyone had clever ways to get their booze during Prohibition. Check these out: http://www.ancientfaces.com/article/those-lazy-hazy-crazy-days-of-prohibition/32?tid=pin16.03.31