1932 : Detroit Police Raid Oasis Club During the Height of Prohibition

When:
November 30, 2018 all-day
2018-11-30T00:00:00-05:00
2018-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

On November 30, 1932, Detroit Police raided the Oasis Club, a blind pig located near the Detroit City College campus (now Wayne State University).

Source : Detroit Historical Society

For more information about Prohibition, see Philip P. Mason, Rumrunning and the roaring twenties : prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway, Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Also see Kathy Warnes, “The Gray Ghost Haunted the Detroit River During Prohibition”, Definitely Downriver, June 2012.

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