How do you get into Secret City Cigar Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. Secret City Cigar Lounge is in the directory because it described as secret, 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: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Secret City Cigar Lounge sits
Secret City Cigar Lounge is in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in Anderson County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Oak Ridge. If you know another, tell us.
Tennessee holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Tennessee speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Tennessee
Tennessee did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven 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, Tennessee already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Tennessee.
What the newspapers recorded in Tennessee
Searching the Library of Congress run of Tennessee newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Tennessee:
- The Chattanooga news, February 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Fayette falcon, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Chattanooga news, March 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Chattanooga news, March 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Secret City Cigar Lounge by phone on (865) 294-4920 and on Facebook.
The address is 195 S Tulane Ave, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Secret City Cigar Lounge we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold 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 lounge and calls it secret.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a lounge.