San Francisco s rowdy and racist chicken-themed restaurant: Topsy s Roost
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A postcard from the 1920s showing San Francisco s chicken-themed restaurant Topsy s Roost.Public DomainShow MoreShow Less
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Topsy s Roost on the boardwalk of Playland at the Beach promised cheap eats and no cover charge during the Great Depression.OpenSFHistory / wnp66.445.jpgShow MoreShow Less
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For a time, the most exciting night out you could have in San Francisco was at a human chicken coop.
To get there, you needed to drive to the edge of the city, where the Pacific Ocean lapped against the shore of a massive amusement park. Near the screaming roller coaster, below the Cliff House, a giant, neon rooster beckoned.
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By Maurice Chammah
In 1972, the Supreme Court meted out a death sentence. The condemned was the death penalty itself. The American apparatus of state killing was effectively shut down, the punishment judged too final given the flawed human beings who gave it. But this death wasnât final. A bipartisan band of bloodlust resurrected the death penalty, needling the annual count back up to a peak of 98 executions in 1999. From there, the death penalty began again to die. This time, it wasnât a high edict that doomed it, but the unsung, helter-skelter, hydra-headed, revolution-by-a-thousand-cuts process through which real change often comes.
In its last six months, the Trump administration put more than three times as many prisoners to death as the federal government had in the previous six decades.
Crazy Laws About Alcohol
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It only lasted 13 years and in 1933, the 21st amendment was passed which stopped prohibition nationally. States can still set their own regulations and we ve seen some doozies during the coronavirus pandemic but that ll have to be a story for another day.or not.
So what about 2021? There are still some drinking laws on the books that are interesting.at least to me.
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny can t promote alcohol in Washington D.C. With everything that is going on in the nation s capital at the moment, we should remind everyone that the jolly man knows who is being naughty or nice, so be kind.
SESSI, EOBI to be brought under one umbrella
SESSI, EOBI to be brought under one umbrella
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said that after the 18th amendment, labour is a provincial matter but the federation was not transferring the assets of workers bodies to the provinces and had held onto the EOBI and Workers Welfare Funds. He made these remarks while talking to the media at a function organised by the North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry (NKATI) on Saturday
He said the Sindh government would soon bring an amended law in the province, after which Sessi, Workers Welfare Board, EOBI and all other workers board would all be brought under one umbrella and every worker in Sindh would be entitled to all facilities. The law would also guarantee that every worker received their right.