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bootlegging
Bootlegging was the illegle transportanting of alcohol or liquor. By means of hiding the containers in places in homes or in tunnels under buildings in town. Some used cars ,wagons, or trucks to sell the liquor. Some made it and stored in pint or quart glass jars and sold to other bootleggers and thought they were hiding it from the law.But the law always found it,or thought they had.There was always another hiding place .ummm bluebird
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carrie nation
Carrie nation was famous for destroying bars and other places in Kansas that sold alcohol with her big ax.bluebird
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During the forties and fifties Oklahoma was a dry state, supposedly. My great uncle was a bootlegger. He had the liquor stored in tunnels under his property. My grandfather was a pilot and he flew the liquor from Kansas into his private airport just north of Enid. From there it was just a couple miles of back road to my great uncles house. I don't know if they were "allowed" to keep it up or lucky. But those searching for the runners couldn't very well pull over an airplane to check it out. I think most bootleggers were probably caught by following the runners as they made deliveries.
Re: bootlegging
billie0w wrote:During the forties and fifties Oklahoma was a dry state, supposedly. My great uncle was a bootlegger. He had the liquor stored in tunnels under his property. My grandfather was a pilot and he flew the liquor from Kansas into his private airport just north of Enid. From there it was just a couple miles of back road to my great uncles house. I don't know if they were "allowed" to keep it up or lucky. But those searching for the runners couldn't very well pull over an airplane to check it out. I think most bootleggers were probably caught by following the runners as they made deliveries.
Very interesting story. It would be neat to gather stories like this up. I would love to have them here at the museum.
Re: bootlegging
Admin wrote:billie0w wrote:During the forties and fifties Oklahoma was a dry state, supposedly. My great uncle was a bootlegger. He had the liquor stored in tunnels under his property. My grandfather was a pilot and he flew the liquor from Kansas into his private airport just north of Enid. From there it was just a couple miles of back road to my great uncles house. I don't know if they were "allowed" to keep it up or lucky. But those searching for the runners couldn't very well pull over an airplane to check it out. I think most bootleggers were probably caught by following the runners as they made deliveries.
Very interesting story. It would be neat to gather stories like this up. I would love to have them here at the museum.
Your more than welcome to that one. I can't flesh it out to much more. Maybe some names. All the people involved have passed on now and the statute of limitations is long past so I think they are safe.
great information
The site is great and has a lot of info. The survey that was taken could be one today,except they need to spend more time on business and new business bluebird Thanks
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Bootlegging
Very interesting. I have seen this site before, as one of our local historians contributed much to it, but I hadn't noticed this area. Cool!
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