The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from August 1920 of Sheridan’s Main Street toward the beginning of Prohibition

Circled in blue, the map labels the Mint Bar as “soft drinks” evidencing its legal soda and cigar front, while alcohol sales and gambling games went on in the unlabeled, separate back room. | Source:

https://www.mintbarwyo.com/legends.

Sanborn Map Company, from the Library of Congress. “Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming,” available at https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn09779_005/.

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