Posted on 01/14/2024 5:48:06 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
An overnight shooting left two men dead and four other people suffering from gunshot wounds after a shooter opened fire in a suspected speakeasy in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Just before 1 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a report of a person with a gun inside a home that was allegedly operating as a speakeasy.
Upon arrival at the home, officers located a 53-year-old male who suffered a gunshot wound to his face and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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I remember stories about Japanese soldiers on isolated islands who didn’t know the war was over for several years, but a speakeasy in Philly? You’d think they would have heard by now. Were they waiting for Elliot Ness to break down the door?
A Speakeasy! Has prohibition returned?
Yeah, they’re making bathtub purple drank.
Not a speakeasy, a juke joint.
Was it in the basement of the neighborhood Opium Den?
Dead people can’t speak easy....
A guest host maybe for Dan Bongino (can’t remember) admitted during the Covid lockdowns in 2021 that she regularly met friends at a secretly open bar, using the back entrance. Only people who knew each other could get in.
a juke joint....
(Guy leaning on the juke box was probably searching for a Jerry Vale song.*)
*Said by Det.Sipowicz as he saw a juke box in NYPD Blue.
There was a lot of that going around.
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A juke joint is a house where black people congregate to do whatever they do.
Yes, that’s what the Rough and Rowdy Ways picture shows.
Photo is now 59 years old, taken by a photographer visiting England and capturing scenes of black life.
Rolling Stone article:
He doesn’t remember what sort of music the couple was dancing to when he captured the moment on film, but he does remember being drawn to the woman. “I’ve always been very into women,” he says. “I’ve been married three times. The lady had a good figure. And I liked the juxtaposition with the jukebox.”
After about 15 or 20 minutes of taking photos, the patrons in the club had had enough of the camera-wielding stranger. “There were crates of beer bottles near the entrance and people started throwing beer bottles at me, so I left,” he says. “It’s something that happens a lot to photographers in different parts of the world, but I think it’s the only time it happened in England to me.”
Also origin of “juke”-——
Where did the term juke come from?
Many country and blues bands got their start playing at jukes in the south, although some jukes offer jukeboxes as their only music. You can also call it a “juke joint.” The word juke comes from the Southern United States Creole known as Gullah — in which juke or joog means “wicked” or “disorderly.”
From vocabulary.com
Exactly!
It’s Philadelphia so I’m going to bet big on NEEEEGROS!
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