Annual 'Repeal Day' celebration rolls on in Crescent Hill
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The city home to Whiskey Row celebrated the repeal of prohibition tonight with a unique tradition in Crescent Hill.
It sounded like the streets of New Orleans as Bourbons Bistro owner Jason Brauner led a bourbon barrel parade up Peterson Avenue and then down Frankfort Avenue to his restaurant for a Repeal Day party.
The West Market Street Brass Band led the parade... with a group behind them actually rolling a bourbon barrel down the street.
"Our tradition started about six years ago. We thought about why wouldn't you roll out a barrel to celebrate repeal day? And we buy a lot of whiskey around here so we had a couple whiskey barrels laying around, so we decided to roll it down Frankfort Avenue," Brauner said.
Prohibition was officially repealed on this date, Dec. 5, 1933.