Like many other breweries, it switched to bottling soft drinks and root beer during Prohibition, including a brand called Omar Root Beer. The brewery closed in the mid-1920s. For a time ...

It appears a Prohibition-themed restaurant in North Myrtle Beach has closed its doors nearly a year ... if the lounge will reopen. There is no sign on the door of the building and the doors ...

This interview was originally broadcast on May 10, 2010. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is now available in paperback. Between the years of 1920, when the 18th Amendment to the ...

McSorley’s Old Ale House, established in New York in 1854 and still flourishing as one of the city’s oldest bars, never closed during Prohibition. Ostensibly, it served “near beer” with ...

Advocates of marijuana hope that someday that drug will emerge from its current “prohibition” period, the same way alcohol did, and become not only legal but as socially acceptable as having a ...

Prohibition may have had a controversial birth -- being the site of a feud between former partners Joey McGuirk and Michael Summerfield -- but aside from the signage outside, it'd be tough to find ...