How do you get into Shim’s Surplus Supplies?
We have not confirmed it. Shim’s Surplus Supplies is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Shim’s Surplus Supplies
How the venue describes itself: “Reno’s Original Speakeasy” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 Shim’s Surplus Supplies sits
Shim’s Surplus Supplies is in Reno, Nevada, in Washoe County, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Reno — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Nevada page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Shim’s Surplus Supplies are Shim’s Surplus Supplies Speakeasy, a few doors away and Seven Troughs Speakeasy, about 550 m away.
Nevada holds 28 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Nevada speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Nevada
Nevada 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 Nevada.
What the newspapers recorded in Nevada
Searching the Library of Congress run of Nevada newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Nevada:
- White Pine news weekly mining review, April 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Carson City daily appeal, June 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Silver state, June 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Eureka sentinel, July 3, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Shim’s Surplus Supplies by phone on (775) 384-6039, through its own website, and on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.
The address is 125 West 3rd Street, Reno, NV 89501. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Shim’s Surplus Supplies we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, 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.