Thread: Ken Burns: Prohibition

this one looks pretty cool.
starts tonight on PBS.
also, he's my next door neighbor, which is kinda neat.

It will feature famous Cincinnatian George Remus, probably the biggest bootlegger of all time. Dude made $600 [U]MILLION[U] in one year, owned the distilleries, the pharmacies that they sold to, and the trucks they moved the booze on (that he stole from).

Even bribed a member of the Harding Administration to avoid prosecution.

Then... he shot his wife in the park after she shacked up with the FBI agent tailing him and had him sent to jail for some time.

Fascinating dude. Can't wait to see it.

Thanks man, lazed out on the sofa with a big glass of cab and tuned in.

Love Mark Twain

Wait, so we have the Anti Saloon League to thank for the federal income tax?

FUCK YOU PEOPLE!

First my booze, then my paycheck?!?

Originally Posted by OSECS

Thanks man, lazed out on the sofa with a big glass of cab and tuned in.

Love Mark Twain

heh, cab for me too. but my 2nd and 3rd big glass....

thanks for the mention buttahflake

Ken Burns hits another Home Run and Peter Coyote's voice is just awesome as the Narrator.
It's amazing how Puritan thinking could have done so much damage to pockets of society. Prohibit something people enjoy and it becomes a bigger problem.
Great lesson was learned right ? So why is marijuana still PROHIBITED ! Oh yeah its a "gateway drug"

BTW it not just my opinion it's a fact, that The Civil War by Ken Burns is the best Doc Series ever created. EVER !!!!

Originally Posted by Big Snowballs

BTW it not just my opinion it's a fact, that The Civil War by Ken Burns is the best Doc Series ever created. EVER !!!!

Can't argue with this, except to say Baseball was not that far off the mark either for best ever IMO. Which is interesting cause now I gotta decide between watching Prohibition or the Yankees v. Tigers tonight (gotta watch the home town hero Justin Verlander beat the Yanks)

A Nation of Drunkards, indeed

each man consumed an average of ~88 bottles of booze per year
.....those were the days (nobody can remember)

That hatchet bitch with the Women's Temperance movement was the devil !

Just amazingly good.

Burns format is so simple, yet so beautifully done. A national treasure.

http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archiv...burns-vietnam/ unfortunately it won't air till 2016 tho hah

Watched part 2 twice ! Great story telling ! l

no doubt! last night was excellent.
BmillsSkier, George Remus was quite a character.

Pretty good timing with he new season of Boardwalk Empire just starting.

The whole Remus story quite amazing.

Found it hilarious that even though it was illegal to drink cocktails in the US during prohibition, we were the worlds largest importer of cocktail shakers.

Stumbled upon this while battling a fucking terrible cold this week. Brilliant stuff. All the backstories and politics that went into Prohibition was fascinating. The whole deal about linking Nazis and beer together was crazy. The mob bosses meeting in Atlantic City to divide up the country via the Fed Reserve grid was genius and quite interesting. Good stuff.

Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig

The whole deal about linking Nazis and beer together was crazy

You're getting your wars mixed up.

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

You're getting your wars mixed up.

Right... well to be fair, I'm still all jacked up on cold medicine.

To fix that; the Anti-Saloon league hitched up the Germans in WWI to beer to help push their prohibition plan...

Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig

Right... well to be fair, I'm still all jacked up on cold medicine.

To fix that; the Anti-Saloon league hitched up the Germans in WWI to beer to help push their prohibition plan...

Of course they did. Those dirty, sneaky Huns were gonna use beer to loosen our P.O.E. morals, and then who knows what would happen ......

Very cool to see how native nutjub cum gajillionaire George Remus was portrayed. Just as crazy and interesting as I pictured it.

Fascinating documentary. What an amazing country we live in in that we're still only so many generations removed from history like this.