How do you get into Hazels Place?
We have not confirmed it. Hazels Place 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hazels Place sits
Hazels Place is in Detroit, Michigan, in Wayne County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Metro Detroit metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Detroit. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Detroit.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Hazels Place are Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy, about 5.0 km away, Shelby, about 5.2 km away, and Miss Eva’s Detroit, about 13.2 km away.
Michigan holds 36 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Michigan speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Michigan
Michigan 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, Michigan already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Michigan.
What the newspapers recorded in Detroit
Searching the Library of Congress run of Michigan newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Detroit:
- Detroit tribune, September 23, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Detroit tribune, November 18, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Hazels Place by phone on (313) 502-5109, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 5516 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48210. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hazels Place 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 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.