The Island Club Research Paper

The Prohibition began in the 1920’s as the 18 Amendment to the Constitution .Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. Sometimes Prohibition was referred to as the "Noble Experiment," A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states).phrase, "speak softly shop," meaning a "smuggler's house," appeared in a British slang dictionary published in 1823. Many years later, in Prohibition-era America, the "speakeasy"

became a common name to describe a place to get a drink. Different names for speakeasies were created. Although raided by police numerous times during Prohibition, the two were never caught. As soon as a raid began, a system of levers was used to tip the shelves of the bar, sweeping the liquor bottles through a chute and into the city's sewers.[5] The bar also included a secret wine cellar, which was accessed through a hidden door in a brick wall which opened into the basement of the building next door (number 19).
But this 18th Amendment had no hold on the long islanders they found many resources around the island to allow the alcohol to enter the long island ,The cargo and bottles of alcohol were smuggled in to people’s homes and local restaurants by knowing the island they were able to go around the law enforcement. The Long is Islands used the harbors that were around them on the north shore to bring in the alcohol.
The people that transported the liquor around the North Shore where called rumrunner, making it and moving it over land as a bootlegger. The Rum Runners were able to get their hand on the alcohol so easily they started operating a speakeasy where people can come in an illegal bar where patrons needed a password to enter to enjoy a night out with anyone watching what they were doing. While the rum running businesses heyday is long past, the legacy left behind by the bootleggers and participating restaurants and bars have left their mark on the East End to this day. “On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on the grounds of fabulous Gold Coast estates, rowdy gatherings in neighborhood speakeasies and big-name entertainers in flashy nightclubs, where ordinary men and women brushed shoulders and clinked glasses with the famous and the notorious.” “Speakeasies opened to provide customers for the illegal alcohol. Finnegan's Restaurant in Huntington and the former Smithtown Hotel, now the Arthur Avenue Restaurant, in the 1920s required customers to use a password, but today only ask for a reservation” . “In Riverhead, Tweed's Restaurant and Buffalo Bar, which traces its roots back to 1886 still stocks traditional liquor brands such as Plymouth Gin, Gordon's, Cutty Sark and Four Roses. During Prohibition, liquor was moved through a series of dumbwaiters and trap doors into the restaurant.” In 1920 Montauk‘s Wyandannee Hotel was a popular storage place for the booze. Also out in Montauk Point the Island Club was a monumental nightclub and casino. Another place was called Star Island which was the most popular local speakeasy.
The Island club was a very popular monumental night club that brought many famous people to Long Island to have a good time during the Probation .The famous people would include “Jimmy Walker, Ernest Hemingway and John Barrymore”.

Greenport was known for a famous restaurant during prohibition called Claudio’s. Claudio's Restaurant is the oldest family owned and “run restaurant in the country found its way into the illegal spirits business, as the downstairs of the building became a fine French restaurant while the upstairs served as a speakeasy.” Many faux speakeasies have been built to provide drinkers will the proper venue to enjoy their classic cocktails. The Mill Pond House restaurant in Centerport, tunnels that once were used by the rum runners to bring the illegal alcohol had provided access to a speakeasy across the street was turned in to a wine cellar. “It’s nice to have that connection to the past," said Dean Philippis, the restaurant owner for nine years. "You see what's left of the tunnels and you know something was going

on."

Though still used as a wine cellar today, part of the vault has been remodeled to allow a party of up to 20 guests to dine in private. 21 also stored the private wine collections of such celebrities as Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford; Joan Crawford; Elizabeth Taylor; Hugh Carey; Ernest Hemingway; Ivan Boesky; The Nordstrom Sisters; Frank Sinatra; Al Jolson; Gloria Vanderbilt; Sophia Loren; Mae West; Zsa Zsa Gabor; Aristotle Onassis; Gene Kelly; Gloria Swanson; Judy Garland; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Marilyn Monroe.

First used in the early 19th century to describe an old English smugglers den, the Speak Softly Shop came to define a place where patrons were required to keep their voices down to avoid detection. While the word became re popularised during American prohibition, it was just one of many description used to describe a prohibition bar

During the 1920s women got the right to vote by the 19th amendment it was raffle after 85 years of women campaigning for women's suffrage movement. On the day of August 18 1920 the 19th amendment was written in to the U.S. Constitution giving the American women the right to vote. With this right women were considered equal to men. Having this amendment passed gave “the women the right to equal control of the children, eagle control of that property, equal control of their earnings, equal rights to make contracts and equal citizenship right”.
However, after gaining suffrage, women lost most battles for equality.

When it came to women having jobs there was a 2 million increase since the war had ended. Even though women were becoming a part of the work force the jobs were still sex segregated. Meaning that women would take jobs as teachers or nurses or other jobs that men rarely wanted. “Women, especially minorities, who held factory jobs held the least desirable and lowest paying jobs in factories. African American women mostly held domestic jobs such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry. There were many openings for educated African women in the social work, teaching, and nursing fields during this time, however they faced much discrimination”.
So it did not matter what race you were as a woman you still were segregated white or black from what the men did as jobs. As time went on and woman got more rights “Women also had an “equal rights to inheritance, equal control of national, state and local governments”. They were also allowed to go to” school or university, work in the government services, professional and industrial businesses”.
With tis 19th Amementment growing woman’s right started playing a role in promoting the reproductive right for woman, “ushering in new voting population with a political agenda that would ultimately legalize contraception and abortion”. By having this power it aloud woman to experience the working field. They were able to plan a family when they were ready to not because it

happen.