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• Incorporated January 10, 1851, the city has been home to Major League Baseball spring training, illegal gambling, speakeasies and gangsters such as Al Capone, horse racing at Oaklawn Park, the Army and Navy Hospital, and 42nd President Bill Clinton.
• Visitors use McCloud as a base to engage in nationally recognized trout fishing in the nearby McCloud, or visiting the ruins of one of the great nightclubs or speakeasies from the heyday of the Roaring Twenties.
• The city is perhaps best known as the home of Templeton Rye, a "brand" of rye manufactured during the prohibition era that was very popular in Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas City speakeasies.
• Early on, MCA booked such prominent artists as King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton for clubs and speakeasies run by legendary notorious Chicago mobsters such as Al Capone and others.
• The federal government was overwhelmed with cases, so that bootlegging and speakeasies flourished in every city.
• They were known nationally for successfully shutting down illegal speakeasies and for using disguises in their work.
• She began her own law and order campaign, closing down illegal activities throughout the city, including lotteries, punchboards and speakeasies.
• Police heard rumors of "Mike the Durable" in speakeasies around the town, and upon learning that a Michael Malloy had died that night, they had the body exhumed and forensically examined.
• Unincorporated areas of King County accessible by auto became popular locations for speakeasies selling illegal liquor and purveying prostitution and gambling, often in clever guises.
• Supper clubs, when used in the newer context of underground restaurants, are also known as home bistros, guerrilla diners, secret restaurants, paladares, puertas cerradas, pop-up restaurants, guestaurants, speakeasies, and anti-restaurants.
• Raft wasn't much of a technical actor – he never would be, not really – but he had swarthy good looks, moved with a dancer's grace and brought authenticity to any role that involved speakeasies, shoot outs and nightclubs.
• "Mighty Mezz" refers to Milton Mezzrow, a Jewish saxophone and clarinet player who became enamored with black American culture while playing in the speakeasies of prohibition-era Chicago.
• Long Island iced teas, Manhattans, Rob Roys, Tom Collins, Aviations, and Greyhounds were all invented in New York bars, and the gin martini was popularized in New York in speakeasies during the 1920s, as evidenced by its appearance in the works of New Yorker and American writer F.
• The Canadian journalists André Cédilot and André Noël wrote: "Proudly mustachioed with a head planted between two massive shoulders, Courville was a man who literally took the law into his own hands, keeping bothersome individuals at bay with his fists and buying off politicians, city councilors, and policemen who threatened to close down his many gambling dens and speakeasies".

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