Los Angeles prohibition era tunnels and a speakeasy- Oddity Odsseys video

When I started this blog a few months ago, I started looking around for weird and interesting stuff in California.  I quickly found this couple and their Oddity Odysseys YouTube channel.  I've shared a couple of their other videos.  They check out a lot of the same kinds of places I find interesting, and make well produced videos.  Since I'm not wandering around much at the moment checking out weird stuff, here's another one of their videos.  

During the 1920's, alcohol was outlawed by the 18th Amendment here in the U.S., and the prohibition of alcohol became a battle between the law, all the people who still wanted to drink, and some mobsters, Like Al Capone.  Speakeasies were the name for the underground bars that popped up in obscure places so people could keep partying during Prohibition.  While we may think of these as a weird relics of 100 years ago, there are still some "underground" bars in business today in places.  

When I was living in North Carolina a few years ago, guys in the hood told me about "Liquor Houses," which are people who have a working, for profit, bar in their house.  One guy I knew at a homeless shelter would buy quality women's shoes at Goodwill or other discount stores, and wander around from one liquor house to another, reselling the expensive, but used, women's shoes to women in the local liquor houses during the day.  There were a handful of them on the poor side of that city, and reportedly in other cities as well.  I even heard stories of a former Liquor House where, like the speakeasies mentioned in the linked video above, local police officers would go after hours, and off duty, to have a few beers or some "corn liquor," the local term for moonshine.  

So as crazy as it sounds, there still are speakeasies, or underground bars, of sorts, are still serving drinks today.  These modern ones aren't trying to avoid the Prohibition lawmen, they're just avoiding taxes and permit fees, serving drinks as an old school side gig, you might say.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.