And Detroit, situated neatly along a narrow river, was a city that knew how ... where infamous players in the Prohibition-era mob scene, including whiskey-lover Capone, looked forward to their ...

National Prohibition started in 1920 ... In the winter months, rum runners would actually drive across the frozen Detroit river, in lighter vehicles dubbed "whiskey sixes," because of the smaller ...

mostly over the Detroit River. Its influence, which included profiting from promoting other vices, including gambling and drug use, grew. Prohibition also brought severe — and unfair — alcohol ...

Prohibition marks the years between 1920 ... spent the next 13 years chasing off rum-runners up and down the Detroit River, Lake Superior, and other waterways that lay along the border.

Below the murky, rolling currents of the Detroit River is a floor loaded with centuries ... On the same wall, there's a propeller from a sunken Prohibition-era rum runner found near the bridge.

with some experts estimating Detroit’s river crossing to Canada was responsible for 75% of alcohol flowing into the U.S.

U.S. Prohibition Commissioner Roy Haynes summed up the role of the Detroit River—frozen or not—as the main conduit for running alcohol across the border: “The Lord probably could have built ...

There are also many bottles dating back to prohibition. Firearms have also turned up. The Detroit River Canadian Cleanup (DRCC) was established in 1998 to restore the river. As an Area of ...

Speakeasies, tucked in alleys or basements across Corktown and Midtown, evoke Detroit’s Prohibition-era grit ... smuggled liquor across the Detroit River. The intimacy draws diverse crowds ...

But even prior to Prohibition, students publicly demonstrated their opposition ... where people smuggled alcohol across the Detroit River,” he said. “There would be bootleggers who would get in touch ...