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Nebrewska: 1938
November 1938. "Saloon and liquor store near Cudahy packing plant. South Omaha, Nebraska." Metz on the left, Blatz on the right. Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Metz Beer is Back
Babied Pickup
That Model A truck around the comer looks to be in pretty good shape for 8 or 9 years old.
Vodka
South Omaha, where this picture was taken, was in a significantly Eastern European region of the city. That, along with growing a lot of grain in Nebraska and the fact that vodka doesn't generally need to be aged (big deal a few years after Prohibition ended), explains its prevalence.
Edit: and I am responding to an earlier comment rather than actually seeing any vodka mentioned in the picture. Oopsie! (though I'd bet a nickel they sold a fair amount of it there)
Alternative View
The same, but less sunny, view was previously featured here https://www.shorpy.com/node/2369
Gone
The address of Peoples Liquor Store, 2524 Q Street, has been completely erased. It is now Highway 75.
Vodkas “R” Us?
Peoples Liquor Store: an early experiment in USSR-USA cultural exchange?
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