Posted on 05/01/2011 8:02:20 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Don't you know? We're ubiquitous. (I refrained from using the term 'omnipresent'...) Is there beer in Miami Springs? Well...
I would love to know how the enforcement of Prohibition went. I'm guessing there was a lot of bootlegging from the British West Indies.
It really is something watching the Dummies demonize business. As if, the parasite government and welfare classes could even exist without their host, businesses and the people who work for them.
I can’t see them accepting prohibition any more than we did here. It became a joke here. I ought to know, coming from the Chicago ‘burbs as I have. I even have quasi family history in that regard.
Gotta go hit the practice green at the CC for awhile and bone up on my short game. Playing golf with the guys in Rockford tomorrow, and don’t want to make a complete fool of myself. Back later...
I thought the mentally retarded were kept under care. These people are permitted access to the Net? Even the Russians don't spout this canal water any more.
How are we supposed to take these bugs seriously?
Tomorrow I fly up to Chicago to meet a group of 40 confessional Lutheran pastors from Sweden (a few are from Norway, Denmark, or Finland), to escort them on a week-long tour of Swedish and/or Lutheran sites in Chicago, Rock Island, and St. Louis.
So I'll probably not have much time for DUFUing this week.
Still home to the Women's Christian Temperance Union. (Three 120 year old woman getting knee-walkin' commode-huggin' on elderberry cordial, with the shades drawn)
Well, enjoy your tour. If you’re going from Chicago to Rock Island, it’s likely as not you’ll be coming directly past Rochelle (unless you’ll be coming from the far south side). We’re at the intersection of interstates 88 and 39. I-88 is the Eisenhower xway coming out of Chicago past Oak Park, etc. It runs past Aurora, DeKalb, Rochelle on to the Quad Cities (Rock Island). I-39 runs North/South from Bloomington, and past Rochelle to Rockford, where it joins with I-90/94 and up on into Wisconsin.
If you leave from the far south side of Chicago, then I-80 is the better bet. It heads west past LaSalle/Peru then later heads north and passes I-88 just east of the Quad Cities.
Honk as you go by...
We lived in Oak Park when I was a kid (left there when I went into the 7th grade). On Sundays after church, my dad would head down Roosevelt Rd to Ed Rohn’s liquor store on the south side of the street in Berwyn (or possibly Cicero, even). The store wasn’t open except to Ed’s friends. Sometimes I’d be invited along. They’d sit in the back storeroom, having a couple beers, and I’d drink soda. Rohn had Vargas girls pasted over the wall so that was an education for me :) Also, my dad told me Al Capone’s brother, Ralph, had the protection for the store and would stop by on occasion. I never saw him there, but I wouldn’t expect to on a Sunday.
Then, my first wife’s dad was a bootlegger in Chicago during prohibition. Small time, and he bucked the mob, but he talked about it openly. I had no reason to doubt him. He was that kinda guy...
Before moving from Oak Park I’d become a cub scout. I recall dad helping with some fundraising, and taking me to an apartment on Oak Park Ave where we met a couple guys and dad asked for a donation (he brought me along wearing my scout uniform, as a selling point, I guess). On the way home he told me they were ‘made’, or some such, and I knew what he meant. Shortly after, he took me to a home in River Forest to collect on the previous visit. Yep, it was Accardo’s home (The ‘Big Tuna’ himself...). I still remember it with the wrought iron fence around it.
No, my dad wasn’t Mafia. We’re German and he worked in retail all his life. But he knew how to get along with people. And, sometimes you just have to...
Now that I think about it, there’s no reason I’d see Ralph Capone at the liquor store. That would have been a fair time before I was going there...
Businesspeople concerned about profits? How dare they!
Dang it.:)
When Weiss Went to the Lord in front of Holy Name Cathedral, my granddad went to Medicine Hat, Alberta for two years, "for his health." Didn't come back until Capone went to Atlanta.
Side note: My father remembered when he was small helping to make Bathtub Booze in the basement. Caramelized sugar for color, half tap water, iodine for bourbon, drops of kerosene for bottled in bond scotch. My dad wouldn't have scotch in the house...
That War on Demon Rum really worked...
The REAL secret of the Chicago Outfit:
Capone was a front guy, the visible face of the Outfit, for Frankie LaPorte, in Chicago Heights. Laporte ran the Mob, and told Capone what to do. He never spent a day in jail, never got his picture taken.
Yeah, that prohibition stuff really worked, didn’t it. That FIL I mentioned (from my first wife). We’d go to their house for a visit on the weekends. They’d still have stuff brewing and this was back in the 70’s. Mostly wine at that time, but old habits die hard. He was a heck of a guy, that FIL, too bad he had the daughter he did. I miss him, but not her.
He later became a master carpenter and taught me what I know about remodeling. Nothing near approaching his knowledge, but I can do stuff if I have to. He had one index finger almost gone, but when making a point he’d point that stub at you, with his shot glass on the bar in front of him, . HA! What a guy.
Yeah, real old school and so PC, isn't it.
As for the idea this thread isn't private, I thought my DUKOS plug-in was working. Obviously not. PJ needs to work on that...
Ask them if they are familiar with margaritas.
I hope they don’t discover the secret algorithm that decodes FR. If they ever find out what we’re really saying, instead of the cover posts that you see without the key, we will all be so busted.
And prepare EXTRA LARGE margaritas. A Lutheran tradition that began years ago at the San Diego mission.
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