HarryWeezer Posted October 3, 2011 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 26 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted October 3, 2011 Saw a piece on TV the other night on prohibition, which reminded of a little ditty my father told me about. My hometown of Ogdensburg, NY is on the St. Lawrence River, across from Prescott, Ontario, and so it became a hotbed of smuggling bootleg alcohol into the U.S. (an uncle, as an infant, was run over and killed by a rum runner being chased by cops) and many in Northern New York would take the ferry across the river so that they could drink in Canada: "Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry, Went across the river, to get a drink of rye. When the rye was opened, the Yanks began to sing, "God bless America, but God save the King!" When I was growing up there in the '50s and '60s, the process was reversed. Ontario had a 21-year-old drinking age but New York State, 18. So the Canadians would come to Ogdensburg en mass to drink. This little town had dozens of bars, about a third of them considered Canadian. Awards
PrimalFear Posted October 4, 2011 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Posted October 4, 2011 From a different perspective..... Makes me think how funny it is, how an imaginary line of ownership can establish totally different freedoms. I look out my window from Vancouver Washington and can see Downtown Portland Oregon, what I can't do here I can do there and vice versa. Good story Harry, I like the ditty btw
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