How do you get into Madam Cooper’s Parlor?
We have not confirmed it. Madam Cooper’s Parlor is in the directory because it a password you have to know, 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 Madam Cooper’s Parlor sits
Madam Cooper’s Parlor is in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists fourteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Portland. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Portland.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Madam Cooper’s Parlor are The Upper Lip, about 400 m away, Secret Grove, about 1.1 km away, and Known Associates Social Club, about 1.2 km away.
Oregon holds 34 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Oregon speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Oregon
Oregon did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Oregon already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Oregon.
What the newspapers recorded in Oregon
Searching the Library of Congress run of Oregon newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Oregon:
- Capital journal, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- East Oregonian : E.O, January 21, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hood River glacier, January 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, January 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Madam Cooper’s Parlor through its own website.
The address is 232 Southwest Ankeny Street, Portland, OR 97204. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Madam Cooper’s Parlor we hold street address and official website. We do not yet hold telephone number, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a parlor.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.