At 07:48 AM 9/7/01 -0400, someone wrote:
>>Also the mob was
>>pretty much tied up in the industry from the
beginning, wasn't it?
And Kevin replied:
>Um, was it? The film industry preceded Prohibition,
so the Mob, if it
>existed at all, wouldn't have been this big powerful
entity at the
>time.
It's my understanding that Hollywood as a centre for the film
industry didn't really take off until the nineteen teens.
Nestor Studios was first in 1910, ironically the same year
movie theaters were banned in the town. If I remember right,
there wasn't a (legal) movie theater in Hollywood until 1914.
So with the Volstead Act coming in 1919, film and bootlegging
in LA are close, historically. One theory might be that as
Hollywood became a centre for debauchery, Prohibition
couldn't have been far behind.
Chris
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