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A speakeasy, also called a beer flat [1] or blind pig or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages. The term may also refer to a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies.
After existing for over half-a-decade and surviving a number of police raids, [12] the speakeasy presumably closed by 1926 when Cleon Throckmorton and his first wife Kathryn "Kat" Mullin relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City. [13] Today, the speakeasy's neighborhood is the site of The Green Lantern, a D.C. gay bar. [14]
The Speakeasy Club, also known as The Speak, was a club situated at 48 Margaret Street, London, England, and was a popular late-night meeting place for the music industry from 1966 to June 1978. The club took its name and theme from the speakeasies of the American Prohibition era .
Chumley's was a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1922 by the socialist activist Leland Stanford Chumley, who converted a former blacksmith's shop near the corner of Bedford and Barrow ...
PDT, also known as Please Don't Tell, is a speakeasy-style cocktail bar in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. The bar is often cited as the first speakeasy-style bar and thus originator of the modern speakeasy trend, [1] [2] and has influenced the American bar industry in numerous ways, [3] including beginning a sea change in New York City's cocktail culture. [2]
The Speakeasy ran for seventy-five performances over five months to sold out houses, [3] directed by Peter Ruocco, Leah Gardner, and Nick A. Olivero. [4] David Gluck was the General Manager. [ 5 ] The production closed on June 16, 2014.
Speakeasy Comics, a Canadian comic book company; Speakeasy (Hong Kong), a type of eatery in modern Hong Kong that does not operate under a restaurant licence, but de facto functioning as a restaurant; Speakeasy Ales and Lagers, a Microbrewery in San Francisco, California; Speakeasy Theaters, a theater that sells beer and wine in Oakland, California
[Speakeasy]" and became more of a professional magazine than a zine. The June 1988 issue was a double issue, being numbered #86/87. Beginning in the summer of 1988, Speakeasy began being distributed in the United States via Eclipse Comics [6] (which had a co-publishing arrangement with Speakeasy's parent company Acme Press).