A friend sent me this via e-mail. Is this a result of an alcohol bust, ya think?
http://web.mail.comcast.net/service/...6101&part=2.16
A friend sent me this via e-mail. Is this a result of an alcohol bust, ya think?
http://web.mail.comcast.net/service/...6101&part=2.16
I think this is the subject photo:
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I remember walking to Rose elementry school and on Baldwin by Medbury them revenuers were dumping a lot of corn mash out a second story window onto the side walk. I haven't thought about that for years.
That's OK, my grandpa has a lot more in his basement.
Prohibition, Raids, Detroit, 1929It's a fantasy shower for Barney Gumble of The Simpsons.Quote:
Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, pours out of upper windows of three--story storefront in Detroit during Prohibition
The Walter Reuther Library caption for this Detroit News photo reads:
"Prohibition, Raids, Detroit, 1929 - Alcohol, discovered by Prohibition agents during a raid on an illegal distillery, pours out of upper windows of three--story storefront in Detroit during Prohibition."
Lucky there were no smokers on the street ... :eek:
but flammability can depend on ambient temper-
ature, humidity, and alcohol proof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol#Flammability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof
EtOH is manufactured in increasing quantities today:
http://ksugrains.files.wordpress.com...er-27-2012.jpg
http://geosurvey.state.co.us/energy/...rod06_zoom.jpg
Damn, what a waste. That could've kept me in alcohol back when, for a least 2-3 weeks.