How do you get into 1928 Cocktail Club?
We have not confirmed it. 1928 Cocktail Club is in the directory because it a hidden entrance, 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.
Where 1928 Cocktail Club sits
1928 Cocktail Club is in Branford Center, Connecticut, in the South Central Connecticut Planning Region, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Branford Center. If you know another, tell us.
Connecticut holds eight listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Connecticut speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Connecticut
Connecticut came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
Connecticut was one of only two states that never ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. National prohibition applied here regardless, and enforcement was correspondingly unenthusiastic.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Connecticut.
What the newspapers recorded in Connecticut
Searching the Library of Congress run of Connecticut newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Connecticut:
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, September 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, December 2, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, February 18, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, June 12, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 1928 Cocktail Club by phone on (203) 530-1600, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1016-1018 Main St, Branford Center, CT 06405. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 1928 Cocktail Club we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name carries a Prohibition-era year and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.