How do you get into Room 520?
We have not confirmed it. Room 520 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Room 520 sits
Room 520 is in Dallas, Texas, in the county of the same name, in the Southwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists ten speakeasies and hidden bars in Dallas. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Dallas.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Room 520 are Speakeasy Wine And Spirits, about 650 m away, Akai, about 1.0 km away, and Hidden-Dallas, about 1.9 km away.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas 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, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in Texas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Texas:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, July 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Snyder signal, June 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Laredo weekly times, August 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Room 520 by phone on (682) 626-6644.
The address is 2105 Commerce St Fl 3, Dallas, TX 75201-4363. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Room 520 we hold street address and telephone number. We do not yet hold official website, 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 room rather than a bar and 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.