Mafia/Gangsters

In the public eye, the 1920s gangster and bootlegger "above the law" lifestyle brought money, fame, nice clothes, women, cars, and homes. The 1920s plays host to many other organized criminals with expensive suits and flashy names.With the passage of prohibition in 1919, the twenties marked a huge shift in the way gangsters went about their everyday business.No longer was it good business sense to beat someone over the head with a pipe to rob them of their pocket watch and loose change.Instead, the mob organized and integrated itself throughout the neighborhoods of Chicago, Detroit, and the boroughs of New York City.
(www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-gangsters.html)




This was the Golden Age of the mob, which prior to Prohibition was limited to rackets, extortion, prostitution, and infiltration of labor unions. Prohibition provided a demand for an illegal service that was too lucrative to pass by. The money earned from the distribution and sale of liquor into the United States provided the bank roll for the mob to become an invisible force in our modern economics today.
(www.gripe4rkids.org/his.html)