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'Since Prohibition'

The neon sign outside Goldberg's Liquors in Brooklyn Park has been glowing since the 1940s, proudly reminding customers and passersby that the store has been in the business of selling alcohol "Since Prohibition."

The store has sold liquor and beer for 75 consecutive years, since national Prohibition ended in 1933. Allen Aronstein, the current owner, said older customers reminisce about the early days of Goldberg's, when there were cows in the parking lot.

Goldberg's was in business even before Prohibition, having been opened as a country store in the early 1900s by Julius and Jennie Goldberg. The store sold alcohol before Prohibition. During the 1920s and early 30s when the sale of ...

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