In U.S. history, bootlegging was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period, which was from 1920 to 1933. During this period …

Police use a road roller to destroy bottles of illegal alcohol confiscated in Serpong, out of Jakarta, Indonesia on April 13, 2018. Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling …

Intended to benefit the common good, Prohibition banned the sale and use of most alcohol from 1920 to 1933. But it did not stop Americans from drinking. Continuing and widespread public …

Olmstead was a Seattle Police lieutenant who switched to bootlegging during Prohibition, with Elsie reading coded children’s bedtime stories on the radio station they started (KFQX) to …

Aug 30, 2016 · By the end of the 1800s, this idea of concealing something illicit, like alcohol, in one’s boot-leg led to the term being extended to those who made and/or transported alcohol …

Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport of illicit goods. The term originally referred to the illegal transport and sale of alcohol. During Prohibition in the United …

“January 16, 1920, was the last day on the job for countless Americans who worked in the legal liquor industry. The Volstead law threatened the livelihood of everybody in the liquor trade …

Mar 31, 2025 · It was a period when the sale, production, and distribution of alcoholic beverages were banned, giving rise to a thriving underground industry known as bootlegging.

Jan 16, 2019 · In 1930, police raided Eugene Shine’s Long Beach, California, home, uncovering $20,000 in liquor—evidence of large-scale bootlegging. Prohibition only drove the alcohol …

Bootlegging refers to the illegal production, distribution, or sale of goods, particularly alcoholic beverages, during the Prohibition era in the United States from 1920 to 1933.