The Long Island History Project Podcast and Bar Crawl Radio got together in Patchogue, Long Island for duel -- sorry dual -- recording about Prohibition on Long Island. We talked with Jonathan Olly, curator at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages and an expert on the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which 86ed all bars in the United States. While downing some wonderful local beer, we got into how drinking continued -- how the Mafia benefited and local governments did not -- the racist aspects of the Volstead Act -- and how law enforcement got really good and breaking open wooden kegs of whiskey and rum with legal axes.
AND -- Becky and I visited the owner of the Old Town Bar -- Gerry Meagher -- and sat in the booth where customers hid their booze during raids -- maybe.
We thank Chris Kretz, host of the LIHP, for joining us on our bar crawl through life. We must do this again -- may on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
We recorded at Daisy Dukes Country Club Bar in Patchogue.
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