Nashville's cigar-friendly Red Phone Booth harkens back to speakeasies

H. L. Mencken celebrates the end of Prohibition in the appropriate way

(Cigar Aficionado) Prohibition came early to Nashville, in 1917. Once the number four exporter of liquor in the United States, suddenly production and sales went underground. Politicians took to their illicit “clubs” along Printers Alley to make deals over whiskey and cigars, while doyennes of society had their “medicine” delivered to the back door of their Georgian mansions via taxi. The newly opened cigar-friendly Red Phone Booth in Nashville harkens back to the speakeasies of that time. Continued