How do you get into 1922?
We have not confirmed it. 1922 is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — 1922 occupies the Mills Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 11000130. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 11000130 · NPS nomination document
Where 1922 sits
1922 is in El Paso, Texas, in the county of the same name, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in El Paso. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in El Paso.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to 1922 are The Speak Easy, about 200 m away, Hush Hush, about 550 m away, and Speakeasy Liquors, about 11.8 km away.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in El Paso
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from El Paso:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 1922 by phone on (915) 260-8038, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 502 N Oregon St, El Paso, TX 79901. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 1922 we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name carries a Prohibition-era year and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.