How do you get into Nelly’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Nelly’s Speakeasy 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 Nelly’s Speakeasy sits
Nelly’s Speakeasy is in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Wilkes-Barre. If you know another, tell us.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach Nelly’s Speakeasy on Facebook.
The address is 9 E Bennett St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701-2702. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Nelly’s Speakeasy we hold street address and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, 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 speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.