What is the Rum Runner now?
What is the Rum Runner now? Broad Street, Birmingham. This is the approximate site of the legendary Rum Runner Club. 'Legendary' because, before it was demolished in 1987 to make way for the Hyatt Hotel, this was where the walls had been graffitied by Duran Duran fans.
What was rum runners before?
Rum runners were also often known as “bootleggers,” a term first used in 1889 in Omaha to describe men who hid bottles of alcohol in their high boots to carry it to reservations for illegal sale to American Indians.