Down the Drain color-orange Just before The Times moved

Just before The Times moved from its West 43rd Street headquarters to a new building two blocks away in 2007

and a smattering of banks

one of the Volcano group

During the 50s

The Times caption for this photo reported

Down the Drain color-orange Just before The Times movedYou can almos+C702t imagine federal agents telling bootleggers, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," as they pour 350,000 gallons of illegal liquor into the Chicago River. The agents seized the barrels of wine, beer and whiskey in raids in and around Chicago on April 6, 1922. The 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919, prohibiting the production, sale and distribution of alcohol. The Prohibition Era lasted until Dec. 5, 1933. Federal agents