Wicked Hamtramck:: Lust, Liquor and Lead

by Greg Kowalski

Book Overview

Hamtramck's population bulged to 56,000 from a mere 3,500 in the early twentieth century, a sixteen-fold increase that created the perfect environment for crime and corruption to flourish. Post-Prohibition, bars sprang up in quick order, until there were at least two hundred within this wide-open town's 2.1 square miles, giving it more bars per capita than any other city in America; even the Dodge brothers served barrels of beer to their workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596298960
• ISBN13: 9781596298965
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.0"