August A. Busch Jr. celebrates Prohibition's repeal

Beer drinkers raise a pint to toast April 7, 2008, the 75th Anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition for beer! This clip is August A. Busch Jr.'s national radio address on KMOX CBS Radio at 12:01 a.m. April 7, 1933, and includes images and video from the repeal celebration at St. Louis' Budweiser brewery.

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[christo930]

I long for the day when modern prohibition is ended and how we will look back on how stupid we were to allow Nixon to create the DEA and the war on drugs. Prohibition does nothing to keep drugs off the street,,imprisons people for what they consume, arms teenaged gangs and terrorists alike. We are again in a depression and we need industrial hemp especially. What a happy day it will be.

[defect530]

im looking for the video of some bitch saying how prohibition failed. she looks like the feminist wacko's you still see today. i saw the clip on the history channel.

[tom27055]

And so April,7 2008 in effect represented the final celebration of Anheuser Busch as an American icon. The St.Louis brewery on this date threw a party for its workers on the brewery campus on a beautiful 80 degree day in recognition of the 1933 repeal of prohibition. This was salaried and union. A rarity in itself right there. Budweisers were handed out at will. Looking back on this day it's almost as if August Busch IV knew the end was near. In a mere seven months the Inbev deal was sealed.

[tugger79]

This Bud's for you Gussie...RIP and fuck the Cubs

[Zuggbar]

Everybody raise of pint...of something better than Budweiser's pisswater.