Talk:Prohibition

1907 saloon rents

• A November 1, 1907 article in the Montgomery Times, by wire from Chattanooga, Tennessee and citing a "retail liquor man" from Birmingham, lists several of the 120 saloons forced out of the city by county-wide prohibition, along with the rents they were said to be paying (on top of their $1,000 annual license fee):
  • Metropolitan Saloon, $600/month
  • Woodward Saloon, $500/month
  • St Nicholas Saloon, $500/month
  • Peerless Saloon, $650/month
  • Dude Saloon, $500/month
  • First National Bank Saloon, $500/month
  • Solomon and Levi, $900/month
  • Subway Saloon, $500/month
  • Champ-Jeagon Saloon, $650/month