Quote Originally Posted by terryh View Post
Read an article in a local mag about scandalous criminal cases in Detroit in the twenties and thirties and learned that up until the late twenties Tommy [[machine) guns could be purchased in hardware stores until the public got fed up with the gangland violence during prohibition....also I believe the Oakland Sugar House on Oakland and Holbrook legally sold the ingredients to make liquor for private at home consumption....
Although the Oakland Sugar House is commonly believed to have been at the corner of Oakland and Holbrook, old Polk city directories don't bear that out. I believe it was actually at Oakland and Hague. There is an old building there [[storefront) that dates from the '20s... could that be the same building?