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Speakeasy bars in the United States date back to at least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth ...
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 ...
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
The roaring (19)20s were famous for jazz, prohibition, speakeasies that defied prohibition -- and the biggest stock market crash ever. A century later, the decade still holds a special place in...
On July 17, 1930, Charles Orin and his wife were arrested for operating a speakeasy — secret establishments selling alcoholic beverages — at their home at 653 E. Second St. in Des Moines, the ...
Local Developer Brendon Meier is the owner of Hush on Main which is a 1920s speakeasy-themed bar in the basement unit of the Marlocon Building. Located at 323 Main St, this has been the former ...
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]
Located downtown underneath The Mob Museum, this speakeasy serves Prohibition-era cocktails – some crafted with house-distilled moonshine – and features plenty of artifacts from the 1920s and ...