Wow, this is a good find! It's certainly correct, because you wouldn't tell people to enter Comet through Buck's if you couldn't. It's not as if it could be a typo.
It wouldn't surprise me because these buildings were (according to another Voat thread) built in 1932, during Prohibition. The possibility has to be considered that they were places where illegal alcohol was distilled and sold. A speakeasy could have been connected to the place the alcohol was being made. You'd want to do that through a tunnel.
Washington's premiere speakeasy was located as 1223 Connecticut Avenue. By February 1932, the police had already raided 1,155 speakeasies in Washington. Imagine how many more there must have been that hadn't been raided!
That's fascinating. Higher up in the discussion, I mentioned that the back room bar might be the speakeasy entrance, and that the gate keeper is the bartender.
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SIMONBARROW ago
Wow, this is a good find! It's certainly correct, because you wouldn't tell people to enter Comet through Buck's if you couldn't. It's not as if it could be a typo.
It wouldn't surprise me because these buildings were (according to another Voat thread) built in 1932, during Prohibition. The possibility has to be considered that they were places where illegal alcohol was distilled and sold. A speakeasy could have been connected to the place the alcohol was being made. You'd want to do that through a tunnel.
Washington's premiere speakeasy was located as 1223 Connecticut Avenue. By February 1932, the police had already raided 1,155 speakeasies in Washington. Imagine how many more there must have been that hadn't been raided!
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Investigate1999 ago
That's fascinating. Higher up in the discussion, I mentioned that the back room bar might be the speakeasy entrance, and that the gate keeper is the bartender.
VieBleu ago
great minds!