Mark Death Of Dry Era -- This is just part of the crowd that surged into Bloomingdale's, New York department store, December 5, to lay in a supply of wet goods as soon as the news became known that old man prohibition had died a more or less natural death. The new liquor regulations make department store selling of liquor one of the more interesting experiments of another "experiment to end experiments." May 12, 1933. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).