GK Parker's Blog

Welcome to the last best white spot in America, where L.A. Confidential meets Chinatown and gives the wild, wild west new meaning. It will take you down a dark road past blind-pigs filled with rotgut and devious grifters. Where a shady LAPD officer tangles with a beautiful, mysterious woman and loses.

Everyone thinks they knows what happened during the 13 years of Prohibition, but no one has seen it quite like this. A time when Presidents served illegal wine at state dinners and women kicked aside their historical traces. It was also a time when the only difference between the cops and gangsters were their badges.

Los Angeles in the 1920s

Police stop bootlegger's car and confiscate cases of whiskey

 

 

Buildings and pedestrians along southeast corner of Spring and First Streets known as the Wilson Block Publication:Los Angeles Times Publication date:1920

 


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