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History Café: The True Story of Seattle's Bootlegging Royalty, Elise and Roy Olmstead

Join authors Albert Gidari and Brad Holden for a discussion of Seattle’s Bootlegging royalty, Elise and Roy Olmstead. Elise was the vivacious London girl who came to America and became a Prohibition informant until she married Roy! Government agents caught up to them and the decade of trials that followed put an end to their kingdom. Theirs is a fraught story of resilience and redemption. Gidari’s book, "Elise Olmstead: The Myth and Mystery of Seattle’s “Queen of the Bootleggers,”' is the first biography of the life and times of this secretive, private, and some would say manipulative extraordinary woman. Brad Holden is Seattle’s unofficial local historian and author of "Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners, & Graft in the Queen City." Holden’s book brings Roy Olmstead, the “Gentleman Bootlegger,” to life and reveals Seattle during Prohibition with all its corruption, unquenchable thirst for good booze, and interesting characters like the radio whiz and inventor Al Hubbard. He was the undoing of Roy Olmstead in the end and the subject of Holden’s book Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger, & Psychedelic Pioneer. History Café as a series is presented in partnership with HistoryLink.