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G24.1-081
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- 1933 (Creation)
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ca. 1933. First shipment of legal booze in Tacoma ca. 1933. View of two men holding pints of Old Taylor. The 21st Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the 18th Amendment which had prohibited the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Cases of 100 proof whiskey are piled up at the loading dock of Tacoma Drug Co. Writing on the cases indicate that the American Medicinal Spirits Co., successors to E.H. Taylor Jr. & Sons, had bottled pints of whiskey, apparently Old Taylor, and made before the start of Prohibition, to be used for medicinal use only. Doctors during Prohibition were the only ones that could write prescriptions for liquor to be used as medicine. Healthy people were not able to purchase liquor legally. Now that Prohibition was over, drugstores were not the only ones who could sell liquor.
Whiskey; Boxes;