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Thread #3794   Message #20342
Posted By: Jack Hickman
31-Jan-98 - 11:50 PM
Thread Name: Urban myths (and legends)
Subject: RE: Urban myths (and legends)
To answer Tim Jacques post regarding the booze tunnel in Windsor during Prohibition, when I first went to Windsor in 1953, there were lots of stories about the old railway tunnel at the foot of Dougall Ave., I think. It had been built before the existing D/W tunnel, and not inconceivably could have been used to carry booze to the states. I know that in more recent years, people have been caught smuggling cigarettes by walking through the tunnel from Detroit. (If that's not true, maybe we have another urban legend, those Windsor people will believe anything when it comes to smuggling. Most methods, no matter how outlandish, have been tried.)

Jack Hickman