# Event Details

- **Event Name**: History Pub - The Smuggler's Blues: The Smuggler’s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit...
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: McMenamins presents History Pub  

The Smuggler’s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit on the Salish Sea  
Presented by Jesse Clark McAbee 

Spanish Ballroom  
McMenamins Elks Temple  
Wednesday, November 19, 2025  
7pm/doors 6pm  
All ages welcome  

The illegal smuggling activities of the early 20th century on Washington's shared border with British Columbia included such highly tariffed items as wool, cigarettes, and animal hides. This illegal trade went on for decades, but none was more widespread than rum running during the Prohibition years of 1920 to 1933. Tacoma and Seattle each had their charismatic rum running kingpins. Their illicit networks stretched from the limits of the Salish Sea down to the rugged West Coast and all the way to Mexico. Join us for tales of liquor pirates, international intrigue, mystery, and danger, with twists of historical irony and grim humor from historian Jesse Clark McAbee.  

Jesse Clark McAbee is a museum professor and historian with a bachelor's degree in history from Washington State University and a certificate in museum studies from the University of Washington.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tacoma/history-pub-the-smugglers-blues-the-smugglers-blues-the-illegal-immoral-and-illicit/200028972104100
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 17

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Tacoma
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Spanish Ballroom
- **lat**: 47.258054
- **long**: -122.440844
- **full address**: Spanish Ballroom, 565 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402-3907, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is History Pub - The Smuggler's Blues: The Smuggler s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit... being held?
  - **A:** History Pub - The Smuggler's Blues: The Smuggler s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit... takes place on Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm at Spanish Ballroom, 565 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402-3907, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing History Pub - The Smuggler's Blues: The Smuggler s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit...?
  - **A:** History Pub - The Smuggler's Blues: The Smuggler s Blues: The Illegal, Immoral, and Illicit... is organized by McMenamins History.

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