Do you know what cow shoes, bootlegs, moonshiners, John Barleycorn, and stills are? Have you seen what these things really looked like? Discover for yourself what life was like during Prohibition with this collection of photos showing life from the 1920s until the early 1930s when people could legally drink again. Did you know: The Temperance movement, active throughout the 19th and early 20th century, led to Prohibition. Alcoholic beverages (their "sale, production, importation, and transportation") were banned from January 17th, 1920 through December 5th, 1933. While you couldn't distill or sell alcohol, you could drink it - if you could find it!