How do you get into Monkey Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Monkey Bar 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Monkey Bar sits
Monkey Bar is in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in Fulton County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Sandy Springs — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Georgia page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Monkey Bar are Chapter Room, about 1.7 km away and Fred Bar, about 1.7 km away.
Georgia holds 41 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Georgia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Georgia
Georgia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve 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, Georgia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Georgia.
What the newspapers recorded in Georgia
Searching the Library of Congress run of Georgia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Georgia:
- Americus times-recorder, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel, April 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta semi-weekly journal, March 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta tri-weekly journal, December 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Monkey Bar by phone on (208) 356-8820 and through its own website.
What we have confirmed
For Monkey Bar we hold telephone number and official website. We do not yet hold street address, social accounts, 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.