Every down town block in Oxnard had two or three saloons. When Prohibition became law in 1920, bars, saloons and beer joints became illegal. That did not stop people from drinking. They just found new ways of not getting caught.
Speak Easies were places that required a password to enter. They didn’t fool anybody but they gave the County Sheriff an excuse to look away. Blind Pigs was another name for a place where adult beverages were served.
There’s never a good outcome when a story begins with: “I was at this joint last night . .” I said these words before but this one time . . .
. . . One morning I awoke as usual when I saw a hole in the wall, I was curious because it was not there the night before. I put my finger in it to see what it was. Later that day I learned that two men got in a gunfight in the street in front of our house. A stray bullet went through the open window and passed about one inch above my head and hit the wall.
One more time Nena the Fairy was protecting me.
