![]() Other people in the liquor business, some with rumored mafia ties, were not happy with the competition. Caption: "Bootleggers of smoking and drinking merchandise took a whipping here Friday." Oklahoma Historical Society Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper, December 1948. “We came in with the cheapest liquor prices to the consumer of any state in the whole union,” Gambulos told KGOU’s Jacob McCleland in 2016.Īccording to Gambulos, Elvis Presley would send a truck to Oklahoma from Tennessee to buy beer from Byron’s. Many retailers tried to fix market prices high for increased profits, but Gambulos refused. You had wholesalers doing kind of what they wanted, you had retailers doing what they wanted,” he said. He moved to the store’s current location at 23rd and Broadway about two years later.Īccording to Blake Cody, the early days of legal alcohol in Oklahoma were chaotic. Gambulos accepted and soon started selling liquor at a small store near the state capitol building. Gambulos set up a number of model liquor stores across Oklahoma City and residents could apply for licenses to operate them.Īt one location, an applicant was forbidden from getting a license because he was a bootlegger, or had been involved in the illegal business of smuggling alcohol in the state, so Gambulos was offered the job. “He had some state senators congressmen approach him about setting up some mock retail stores to see what it would look like for retailers with liquor,” Cody said. In April 1959, Oklahomans voted to repeal prohibition, or “go wet,” and Byron Gambulos was involved in helping leaders prepare for the legal sale of alcohol. The state entered the union dry in 1907 and stayed dry for more than two decades after Prohibition in the United States, which ran from 1920 to 1933. Eventually, he moved to Oklahoma City with his wife and worked at several different businesses, including a dress shop.Īt the time, alcohol was illegal in Oklahoma. Gambulos went to military school and then served in the Philippines during World War II. An entrepreneur from the start, he reportedly opened his first hamburger stand when he was 10 years old. ![]() ![]() Gambulos grew up in Dallas, the son of Greek and German immigrants, where he worked in restaurants from a young age. “Byron is a charmer,” said Blake Cody, Gambulos’ grandson and the store’s current general manager. Hicks asked How Curious: Is this true? And if so, why did the business need a gun?īyron’s Liquor Warehouse, named after its owner, Byron Gambulos, is one of the largest liquor stores in Oklahoma. ![]() Listener Adam Hicks heard the store had a machine gun turret on its roof in its early days. Byron’s Liquor Warehouse in Oklahoma City has been around since the state legalized alcohol in 1959. ![]()
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![]() Anyone who disagreed would be asked to resign, and the only workplace politics allowed in the future would be related to Coinbase’s “mission,” which was “building the most trusted and easiest to use financial products that help people access the cryptoeconomy.” This, he said, would “bring more economic freedom to the world.”Īrmstrong’s message led to some resignations, and tons of media coverage ahead of Coinbase’s public stock listing. Staff would be banned from engaging in activism at work, he announced, and should refrain from advocating for political and social issues in the office. According to the list, 25 crypto exchanges, including Binance and Bithumb, have confirmed they will support FLR airdrop, while 12 exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance.US, have not confirmed support for the exercise.In September 2020, amid a wave of activism by employees in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong announced a new policy governing politics in the workplace. The company recently demonstrated its willingness to distribute the tokens to XRP holders by publishing a list of exchanges supporting FLR airdrop. ![]() Meanwhile, Flare Network is committed to proceeding with FLR distribution on the scheduled date, January 9, 2023. “ Wait… Coinbase didn’t give XRP holders their Songbird SGB token distribution? Uncle brian_armstrong, WHAT’S THE DEAL?!” BitBoy tweeted last month. TheCryptoBasic reported that prominent crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong, a.k.a BitBoy Crypto, called out Coinbase over the matter. The exchange has not given any information on why it has delayed the token distribution for over a year. It is worth noting that while other exchanges have completed the distribution of Songbird (SGB), Flare Network’s testnet tokens, Coinbase is yet to distribute the crypto assets to XRP holders who qualify for the airdrop. ![]() Philion is eager to get Coinbase to distribute FLR tokens because it seems the exchange is having problems with Flare Network’s token distribution. Despite fixing the FLR airdrop distribution date, the Flare Network team wants to confirm the exchanges’ readiness for the token distribution. On December 6, Philion revealed that Flare Network had not gotten any response from Coinbase regarding its offer to support the exchange in distributing the tokens to XRP holders.Īs reported, the long-anticipated FLR airdrop is scheduled to take place on January 9, 2023. The announcement comes a week after Flare Network’s CEO Hugo Philion disclosed that Coinbase is yet to respond to inquiries about FLR distribution. "We estimate supporting the airdrop within the first half of 2023" įlare Network CEO Calls Out Coinbase Team While we cannot guarantee support for any particular jurisdiction, FLR trading, and the associated FLR airdrop, is expected to generally be available in Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of Germany, Japan, New York and Singapore.įlare network and community both thanked Coinbase.Ĭoinbase finally confirm support for the $FLR distribution! ![]() ![]() However, Coinbase users residing in Germany, Singapore, Coinbase, Japan, and New York, will be exempted. Per the announcement, the FLR airdrop will only be available to Coinbase users who reside in supported jurisdictions. The exchange further said it could not guarantee support for any specific jurisdiction. ![]() ![]() Please note that these delivery timeframes are estimates and are not guaranteed.
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