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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, John Simonsen, Arcadia Publishing Tea Towel the Kauffman CenterLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest