The 1920s were also the decade of prohibition against alcohol beverages. In fact, I've shared a short segment from one of my stories about a rough, Hell raiser, pit bull family operating a whiskey bootleg still during the 1920s. Edgar and his wife, Nora, were so proud to see the day when their son Eugene married Elsie, and older son Jake got married to Olivia. Edgar and Nora became grand parents in the 1920s when Thomas and Reginald were born to Eugene and his wife, Elsie...And also when Jake Jr., Ernest and Eloise were born to Jake Sr. and his wife, Olivia. During the prohibition era of the 1920s, Edgar and his brothers, Gene and Moe, made a good income as moonshine bootleggers. Their stilling operations were conducted on some remote, rural, wooded acreage Gene owned, with a dirt lane going deep into the woods. Because of the federal prohibition on alcohol beverages during the 1920s, nightclubs and speakeasys in nearby Detroit paid good money to have a supply of booze for their patrons. Sons, Jake and Eugene, were young adults by then and would often help Daddy Edger, Uncle Gene and Uncle Moe brew that moonshine, along with delivering it to their clients. Rear springs in their cars were beefed up to avoid their cars having a squatted down look when loaded. Back then, a car with a squatted down look was a red flag to the feds moonshine was being hauled. Daddy Homer would occasionally lend a helping paw as a moonshine runner with grandsons, Jake Sr. and Eugene. Though by then, Homer was in his 80s with failing health. Edger was proud to later see Eugene get a job at the Ford Motor Company factory in the year 1922. Occasionally, Eugene would still help his dad and uncles brew moonshine on some of his days off. Jake Sr.'s help brewing moonshine was more full-time, as Jake could never keep a job for very long.
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