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The best thing about this basement… aside from the carpet?
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It had a genuine prohibition era speak easy…
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That you enter through a tunnel of rock! Be still my heart.
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Okay, I was extremely disappointed it didn’t open until 9:00pm when we’d be long gone, but still.
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It was a funky space.
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Burrowed in the ground, no windows, only one access port.
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They took their drinking in secret seriously.
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The bar itself was behind this locked gate but that didn’t stop me from sticking my nose… and camera… inside.
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No flash.
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Flash.
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How cool is that!
If you can, enlarge this article and read the middle and right hand columns for its history.
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I really hope we’re back in the area some night.
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Because I’d love to stroll through here with a martini in hand.
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River's world..... 
That looks like an amazing place! I wonder what the noise level might be like on a busy night, but with enough alcohol, who cares?
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Raquetball, huh? That would make a patron wanna drink!
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Ohh….a secret drinking place, yes please. I’d also love to stroll through there with a couple of martinis in both hands.
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While wearing a fedora… I still have mine.
👍
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Cool Cave . . . but I’m surprised that a 2nd exit isn’t required under current fire codes.
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The building is probably grandfathered.
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IMHO, we’ve needed a “prohibition era” since 2016 for all things Trump, including Trump.
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It’s definitely been a long intoxication… not to mention hangover.
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What an amazing space.
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So fun!
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Do you need to know THE secret word to get in?????
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We didn’t… but that would be appropriate.
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Book a room there. Problem solved! Then again, you won’t have any money left over for drinks…
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Yeah. That’s a deal breaker…
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I figured as much.
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Awesome!
A local bar has a non-original prohibition bar that you enter through a phone booth. You go in, shut the door, call, give the password, and the back of the booth opens to a funky bar where “craft cocktails” take forever to make. If you don’t know the night’s password, which is surprisingly hard to get, you don’t get in!
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I love it! And a perfectly crafted cocktail is always worth the wait.
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I know there is/was a speakeasy somewhere in LA where you entered an open garage and walked through the refrigerator. Another in SanDiego where you had to know the wall of beer kegs was fake and could be pulled open. And one in ??? that was a wall of aboiy 100 decorative doorknobs but one actually opened a hidden door.
At the phone booth one, the vibe was totally 1920s. Another I went to was disappointing because once you got in, it was totally modern and loud.
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I don’t think we have anything like that around here. Or if we do… no one ever told me.
😉
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There were a trend here around 2015. I don’t know how many survived the pandemic
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For a minute, I thought it could be Hitler’s Bunker
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I’m guessing this was much more fun.
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