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Mission High: Class of 1928

They graduated in a city where Prohibition was law, though it didn’t have much effect. In 1926, the Board of Supervisors had even passed a law banning local police from enforcing Prohibition. The...

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How Original McCarthy’s Became Cha Cha Cha

Ding, dong, prohibition was dead on December 5, 1933. Shortly after, Denis McCarthy, an Irish immigrant from County Cork living in San Francisco, was one of the first businessmen to begin legally...

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