Prohibition in the United States started 1920 when the Volstead Act was passed and ended in 1933. How do you handle prohibition in the game?

Since the streets say 100% 1930's roleplay and doesn't specify what year my characters start off in 1933 when prohibition ends and they have to move onto other activities to make their money. When my characters do deal with Prohibition like when they enter a speakeasy in one of the business districts or an RP it's during a flashback. That's just my take on things what do you do?

Interesting topic - haven't done a streets post yet so irrelevant that I failed to notice this timing before. That said one of the arguments for prohibition was using grain to support the war and we see grain alcohol listed in things to sell which doesn't say definitively about timing but to me suggests the setting to be the early 1930s still.

I know people mix and match when it comes to dynamics like this, to best suit their approach in the game. 

Prohibition is a great thought provoking aspect of the 1930's so can make for some great RP opportunities. Having a bar which is openly selling alcohol during that period could be explained by paying off the local brass to allow business to continue. 

A more difficult situation to fit into the 1930's setting that I've struggled with has been Vegas. The city barely existed in the 30's and had only one casino around that time. Finding genuine landmarks, airports or streets to remain authentic is difficult. 

It's good to see people thinking about things like this though, I appreciate a bit of depth to a character or a scene, especially when I can look up what a specific building looked like or read up on a particular type of gun or cigar, for example.

 One reason for the prohibition and why it was so short lived. The prohibition of alcohol in the 1930s was used as a cover up to make  marijuana illegal. Prior to this marijuana was a staple in the medical field, even being prescribed to infants.  It threatened the paper industry  and the oil industry in certain  large markets.  So  one of the propaganda  tactics of the day was that marijuana was bad, only  for those with no morals and colored folks (sound familiar?). Although the legality of hash was not in question, which  is why you found hashish houses in the 1930's.