![]() Coast Guard established a base to catch the runners. Louis to Gulfport to Pascagoula were paid well for unloading and hiding the caches. Bootleggers produced “white lightning” in stills. Locals found floating bottles, ditched by runners in hot pursuit, and happily took the goods home. Schooner captains made more money smuggling booze than with seafood. ![]() Rum-runner brought it by boat from Cuba and Central America. ![]() Coastal counties and pineywoods were in the thick of bringing illegal booze to the state and to the country, using the islands, the sound, bays, highways and railways as transports.īlind tigers sold the alcohol locally in stores, houses and secret saloons. The history of alcohol on the Coast: Booze, murder and moreĪnd so go the stories of Mississippi Gulf Coast days of prohibition, sometimes retold as family lore, sometimes documented in newspapers. ![]()
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