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Goodbye COVID Hello Detroit !!

 Remember Prohibition and Patent Medicine? Well, Abicks Bar on Gilbert street in SOuthwest Detroit was opened occasionally during Covid on Saturdays  I visited in February 2022 and ran into two women doing the best dive bar list.Abicks is on that list due to This:


 Abicks has a hidden cellar with things like old patent meds from around the time of the Great Influenza of 1918 to 1920  


http://prohibitiondetroit.com/web/pandemic-in-detroit-spanish-flu-quack-cures-and-booze/


Alcohol was simultaneously banned during this time, so you could only feel better through Doctor Feel Good  This is a  guest post from Prohibition Detroit see the link below

http://prohibitiondetroit.com/web/pandemic-in-detroit-spanish-flu-quack-cures-and-booze/

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