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27 09, 2025

Reading, Pennsylvania: The City That Nullified the Dry Law

2025-11-28T09:08:53-04:00September 27th, 2025|Organized Crime, Organized-Crime, Prohibition|0 Comments

In 1929, at the height of Prohibition, Reading, Pennsylvania was pictured as a city where the Volstead Act was little more than a farce. Dubbed the capital of Pennsylvania’s beer belt, Reading carried on its long brewing tradition almost as if the Eighteenth [...]

27 09, 2025

Prohibition in Reading and Berks County: A City Awash with Beer, Bribes, and Bootleggers

2025-09-27T10:08:04-04:00September 27th, 2025|Organized Crime, Prohibition|0 Comments

Few American towns captured the contradictions of Prohibition as vividly as Reading, Pennsylvania. Between the dawn of the Volstead era in January 1920 and Repeal in 1933, Reading—and the farms and mill towns of Berks County around it—turned a constitutional experiment into a [...]

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