Las Vegas celebrates 79th anniversary of ‘Repeal Day’

Mob Museum to mark day with party featuring cocktails from era

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 | 1:43 p.m.

When the country outlawed alcohol in 1920, millions of Americans turned to a clandestine network of speakeasies and bootleggers in search of a stiff drink. The 18th Amendment, which banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol, ushered in an era of prohibition and gave rise to organized crime, whose bootlegging operations flourished over the 13 dry years. The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas chronicles the role Prohibition played in the growth of organized crime and the efforts law enforcement agencies made to bring gangsters down. On Wednesday, the Mob Museum celebrated the Dec. 5, 1933, passage of the ...

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By williamtomany1

Dec. 5, 2012

3:31 p.m.

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By missd

Dec. 6, 2012

3:40 p.m.

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Atleast we all know who NOT to get a liver transplant from.