Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers.
Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City..
This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains.
A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state.
A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store.
But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest.
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers
