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Thread #119001 Message #2578971
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
01-Mar-09 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Do we notice dead Mexicans?
Subject: RE: BS: Do we notice dead Mexicans?
Many of them went into the labor unions. (Common belief, but I am unable to quote statistics)
Most bootleggers I knew, in the dry days in Oklahoma, were good church-going citizens, who performed a service appreciated by all who liked their dram. I had one as a next-door neighbor.
A childhood memory, from the Prohibition 1930s before repeal, I remember them delivering Canadian goodies (this was in New Mexico, a long way from the border). Hell, the Elks Club would have been dead without their regular deliveries. Canadian Club was the big seller. At home, a dead Victrola (horn behind the gauze removed) was the storage cabinet.