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By 1923, when the town of Gerard in East Central Alabama was absorbed into Phoenix City,

Gerard had survived as a good time town known for any and all vices since the Creek War

more than 100 years earlier. It remained a haven of vices through the Civil War and the Great War.

Attempts by honest government officials and zealous temperance groups to curtail the city's rampant illegality

had been inconsistent and largely unsuccessful.

The continued growth of Columbus, Georgia just across the Chattahoochi River provided an indirect economy for Phoenix City.

The area outside Phoenix City was mostly farmland, but across the river in Columbus,

there were mills and the army base of Fort Benning.

There were workers and young servicemen, and many of them spent a lot of money having fun in Phoenix City.

During the prohibition era from 1920 to 1933, Phoenix City continued to do what it did best,

even as crackdowns on the production, sale and distribution of alcohol ramped up.

Even with the crackdowns, if a person couldn't find a drink in Phoenix City, he or she just wasn't trying hard enough.

And that wasn't to say that a good time couldn't be found in Columbus or on the base at Fort Benning.

It was just that the good time was usually a little more wholesome, like playing sports or going to a show at a theater.

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