A story from the Sept. 18, 1960, Park City Daily News noted that a teenager signed a statement admitting to bootlegging activity and implicated an adult in the activity on Coombs Street.

The teen admitted to Detective Harold Ricketts that a man had been paying him to sell whiskey from a parked car in the neighborhood. Officers also questioned a teenage girl who was caught destroying whiskey during the raid.

—“Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.