{"id":50492,"date":"2013-01-16T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50492"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:16:30","slug":"prohibition-what-did-they-do-with-all-the-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/01\/16\/prohibition-what-did-they-do-with-all-the-booze\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibition: What Did They Do With All the Booze?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this day in 1916 the U.S. government passed the 18th amendment prohibiting the “…manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” \u00a0The rest is history. \u00a0But where did all the existing booze go and how did the feds dispose of alcohol confiscated in the years it was illegal? \u00a0Retronaut<\/a> has a series of photos with the answer to this question. \u00a0It looks as if liquor fed the fishes and the daisies, marking an unintentionally intoxicating period of American history.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More at Retronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day in 1916 the U.S. government passed the 18th amendment prohibiting the “…manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” \u00a0The rest is history. \u00a0But where did all the existing booze go and how did the feds dispose of alcohol confiscated in the years it was illegal? \u00a0Retronaut has a series of photos with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,253,3920,212],"class_list":["post-50492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-history","tag-nation-united-states","tag-alcohol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50501,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50492\/revisions\/50501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}