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- Like many cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal booze, bootleggers, and speakeasies, as well as corrupt police and politicians and moralizing reformers. A place that wanted to be the wholesome “Heart of America” was cast instead as the wicked “Paris of the Plains.”
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Mar 10, 2016 · It was that potent mix of food, alcohol and music that gave birth to Kansas City’s most spectacular and notorious era, which bar and restaurant owners keep flirting with today.
- Sylvia Maria Gross
Jan 27, 2020 · Prohibition officially began in 1920 and lasted until 1933, but Kansas City was largely defiant. Many legitimate breweries, wineries and liquor retailers closed, but vices like bootlegged booze, jazz and gambling flourished in the Paris of the Plains.
Jun 8, 2023 · The passage of the Volstead Act in 1920, which enforced Prohibition nationwide, had a profound impact on Kansas City. The city's insatiable thirst for alcohol remained unquenched, leading to the rise of illegal drinking establishments known as speakeasies.
Jul 18, 2022 · However, one of the most interesting cities in the USA during this era was Kansas City, for two reasons: first, it had one of the wildest scenes in the country in the 1920s, bar none; second, the city would lose its status as one of the USA’s greatest party towns soon after Prohibition ended, and is now not known for much besides being very ...
The historian says that once prohibition ended, things in Kansas City really started to change and blossom. “Kansas City had a reputation of being a wide-open town. Kansas City gained a jazz ...
Jan 15, 2020 · Prohibition forever changed Kansas City. The Federal ban on the sale and import of alcohol in the United States was largely ignored by the city for its entirety, launching a golden age in KC—and fueling a unique spirit that lives on today.
Jan 1, 2024 · In 1920, just as the Constitution’s 18th Amendment was adopted prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States, Kansas City was in the midst of entering a political era known as the Pendergast Years.
