610 CKTB| Rum Runner’s Christmas & When Whiskey Fueled the Detroit River
100 years ago today, while families slept and dreamed of eggnog and wrapping paper, the Windsor-Detroit riverfront was anything but peaceful. It was Christmas week, 1925, and the frozen river had become the "Windsor-Detroit funnel"—the epicenter of a global black market for alcohol.
In a recent segment, Jon Liedtke joined Gene Valaitis on 610CKTB to discuss his article, Rumrunner’s Christmas: When a frozen Detroit River ran on Whiskey-fueled Studebakers.
It’s the story of how a frozen river, a legal loophole, souped-up vehicles, and Canadian whiskey kept the Roaring Twenties roaring in the…
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