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
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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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