Gregory de la Haba serves 20 mugs of beer for a table of customers in McSorley's Old Ale House in New York. Located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, McSorley's opened in the mid-19th century and remained open as a speakeasy during Prohibition. The Prohibition Era, which lasted from Jan. 17, 1920, until December 1933, is now viewed in popular culture as a failed experiment that glamorized pervasive illegal drinking.