Location is a huge part of the small-bar attraction, capitalised on by the oft-seen theme of prohibition-style speakeasies.

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Politicians did not anticipate the extent of unintended consequences, as the illegal commodity only encouraged bootlegging, speakeasies and the mafia.

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It remains the most well known of the Philadelphia speakeasies and due to its popularity, the most difficult to get into.

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Romance at the captain's table on some swank ocean liner, champagne socialites dancing in speakeasies -- the boys knew all that stuff from picture shows.

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HBO's hit series Boardwalk Empire, entering its second season this September, has reincarnated a nostalgic vision of Atlantic City, replete with gangsters, molls, speakeasies and poker joints.

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She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refused to let her go to college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.

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Koreatown is home to more nightlife than many other entire cities can claim, from dive bars to high-end cocktail speakeasies, from karaoke clubs to establishments that must be a business of some sort, on the second level of a strip mall with a sign in Korean and people coming and going at 4 a.m.

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