Bootleggers, Rumrunners, and Blind-Piggers: Prohibition in Ventura County (via Museum of Ventura County)

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum

It was the opening day of duck season in October 1925. The last thing the hunters expected to bag along the shore east of Hueneme was dozens of 50-gallon barrels of pure alcohol…

Source: Museum of Ventura County

Flu Fighters: The 1918 Flu Pandemic in Oxnard (via Museum of Ventura County)

By Museum Volunteer Andy Ludlum

In March 1918, an Army cook named Albert Gitchell was hospitalized with a 104-degree fever at Camp Funston…

Source: Museum of Ventura County