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Prohibition.
No full textOn January 6, 1933, U. S. Revenue Agents supervise the destruction of 600 cases of illegal whiskey in the 0 block of North Water Street between the U. S. Custom house and the U. S. Government Wharf, with sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Modoc, observing the event
Prohibition.
No full textThe State of North Carolina began prohibition in 1909, ten years before the nation went dry in 1919. The Federal Prohibition Amendment was repealed in 1933, but North Carolina as a whole did not begin to sell spirits again until 1935.
Federal Revenue Agents direct longshoremen to destroy 600 cases of illegal whiskey in the alley at the rear of the Customs House on January 6, 1933. The whiskey ran into sewers which emptied into the Cape Fear River
W26 Carolina Cottage, Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
No full textThis divided back postcard features an illustration depicting the Carolina Cottage at Wrightsville Beach
W-29 Bathing in the Atlantic Ocean at Lumina, Wrightsville, Beach, N.C. 3A-H631
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features an illustration which depicts people sunbathing at the Lumina Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach
W-16 Ocean Terrace Hotel and Bathers at Night, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. 2A623
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features beachgoers surf bathing at night near Ocean Terrace Hotel at Wrightsville Beach
W27 Kitty Cottage, Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
No full textThis divided back postcard features an illustration of the Kitty Cottage at Wrightsville Beach
W28 Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. 3A251
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features an illustration depicting the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville Beach from the Steel Pier
W-18 Lumina By Moonlight, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C.
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features an illustration which depicts beachgoers surf bathing at the Lumina Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach in the moonlight
South Water Street - 100 block.
No full textIn June 1932, a shark was hung in front of J. B. Fales’ Fish House at 116 South Water Street.
Albert Franklin Fales (1891-1943) stands next to an eighteen foot porpoise at the entrance of his father’s business, J. B. Fales’ Fish House at 116 Water Street. The porpoise was harpooned by Capt. Will Moore on June 23, 1932. George Clark and other members of the fishing party aboard the Tangier, battled the porpoise for four hours. Note street paving is Belgian blocks