photo: Mike Ritter
Seventy-five years ago, on December 5th, 1933, the state of Utah ratified the 21st Amendment and effectively ended the 13-year dry spell in American history known as Prohibition. In the past, that event has mostly interested historians, but in recent years restaurateurs and bar owners have begun honoring the date with an informal "Repeal Day."
So how to celebrate Repeal Day? You don't need to buy a costume or give a gift – all you need to do is kick back and enjoy your constitutional right to imbibe. And what better place to get into the spirit (or spirits, as the case may be) than these five establishments that were once actual speakeasies: