How do you get into Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Blind Pig occupies the Root and McBride-Bradley Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 80002978. 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 80002978 · NPS nomination document
Where Blind Pig sits
Blind Pig is in Cleveland, Ohio, in Cuyahoga County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Cleveland. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Cleveland.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Blind Pig are Speakeasy, about 1.8 km away, The Writer’s Room, about 2.5 km away, and Bugsy’s Speakeasy, about 3.7 km away.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Cleveland
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Cleveland:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Blind Pig by phone on (216) 621-0001 and through its own website.
The address is 1228 W 6th St, Cleveland, OH 44113. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blind Pig we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.