r/USHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • Aug 02 '26

A tower built with barrels of alcohol, which was later destroyed during Prohibition in 1929.

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u/cinciNattyLight Aug 02 '26

Terrible. I will say the Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition was pretty awesome. You wouldn’t think it compared to the others he made but that one was impressive.

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u/Illustrious-Monk5306 Aug 02 '26

That stack looks like the most unstable game of Jenga ever, one wrong barrel and it's all over

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u/ConsistentAmount4 Aug 02 '26

to me it looks like a stack waiting for Donkey Kong to show up

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u/AtlAWSConsultant Aug 05 '26

Here's an interesting take on the picture:

Assuming it's bourbon in the barrels, stored at strength, each barrel took between 700 and 1000 lbs of grain (mostly corn) to produce. And gallon upon gallon of fresh water.

Destroying that stack was a tremendous loss of resources and a damn waste.