09-06-1933 (cutline): Norman Brown, 23, drank fifteen bottles of 3.2 beer in one brief sitting...he raised an eyebrow at the word intoxication.
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In July 1933, a group of Richmonders enjoyed lunch and lager at a local establishment. Virginia lawmakers were close to legalizing some beer sales as the Prohibition era was nearing its end.
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03-14-1958 (cutline): New picnic-sized beer barrels, just one-quarter the old-fashioned size are going on the market. The barrels are made of stainless streel, designed not to require a tar pitching like wooden barrels and not to put like aluminum barrels. They have a capacity of 7 1/4 gallons.
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In October 1976, Ronald J. Roller of Petersburg posed with his beer can collection, which totaled almost 1,300 after 18 years of collecting. He conservatively valued the trove at $5,000. Roller held two of his prized pieces: a 1934 Old Milwaukee can and a gallon can/dispenser of Gettelman.
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10-31-1983 (cutline): J.W. Phillips & Sons Distributor at 923 N. Meadow Street.
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A 1952 image of shoppers going through the checkout line at Lafayette Foodland, located at 1007 Lafayette St. The next year, the store, which opened in 1940, published a legal notice in The Times-Dispatch that it would apply for a state license to sell beer.
That a proposed Armed Forces Brewing Company brewery, taproom and beer garden has been a source of contention there speaks not only to the depth of our political divide, but the willingness of people to ferment it by embracing the culture wars.
