Huge!!!! USA Soccer is on a high right now after taking out Spain in the Confederations cup in South Africa, with a 2-0 shut out of the worlds #1 ranked team, Spain. Jozy Altidore is impressive at 19 and if he stays strong with the US team, he could help push us to be a …
As more of our regular pub crawlers tend to be English than of any other mix of ethnic group, we’re raising a glass for the Queen’s Birthday this weekend. In addition we have a few other June births in the group so a roof top party is on hand. If you’d rather celebrate a more …
Today is the 75th anniversary date of the officially repealed of prohibition in America with the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. On December 5, 1933, a 3/4 majority of states needed to ratify the 21st Amendment was reached when Utah adopted the 21st Amendment. It not only officially ended national Prohibition which …
April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …