Post-Prohibition Advertising
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After prohibition ended, Spokane experienced a boom in the flow of alcoholic beverages. This Spokane store advertises three pounds of Budweiser beer for less than half a dollar.
Image L87-1.1552-32 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
This file appears in: From Temperance to Microbrews
From Temperance to Microbrews
Temperance activist Carrie Nation of Kansas was famous for smashing saloons with a hatchet in the days before Prohibition. Before Nation's 1910 visit to Spokane, the mayor ordered saloon-goers to leave town. Excess consumption and its impact on…
