Speakeasies Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages; now, retro style bars
About Speakeasies
—W. C. Fields From 1920–1933, it was illegal to produce, import, or sellalcoholic beveragesanywhere in theUnited States. This wildly unpopular law had long-reaching consequences: A variety of tactics were employed to keep police raids from finding the alcohol at speakeasies. Some would hide the bar and bartender: you would put money in a drawer and make a request, and when you opened the drawer again it would have your drink in it, served by a bartender behind the wall. Others concealed the entire establishment using tricks worthy of a spy film such as hidden doors (often inside a legitimate business as a front) or secret code words. Some had alarms so that when police raided, staff could hide or dump all of the liquor before the police could find it. After Prohibition was repealed, bars b
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