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Benjamin Wiley Gettys 1920 - 2005

Benjamin Wiley Gettys of West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina was born on August 25, 1920, and died at age 85 years old on September 20, 2005.

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West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina 29169
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In 1920, in the year that Benjamin Wiley Gettys was born, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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In 1933, Benjamin was just 13 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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