Opening in 1953, Dee Tee’s Liquor Store in Poughkeepsie first came under the scrutiny of authorities in 1955, when it had been supplying illegal absinthe to high-paying clientele. Dee Tee’s liquor licence was also lost for numerous offences by its rotating management over the years, including for the sale of alcohol to minors, for the sale of outlawed “cowhide beer” and for distributing lysergic acid in bottles of scotch whiskey.