How do you get into Southside Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Southside 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.
The drinks at Southside Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Salem’s #1 LGBTQIA2S+ premier food & show bar awaits your arrival!” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Southside Speakeasy sits
Southside Speakeasy is in Salem, Oregon, in Marion County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Salem. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Salem.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Southside Speakeasy are Salem Eagles 2081, about 900 m away, The Wexford Room, about 4.3 km away, and Northside Speakeasy, about 6.5 km away.
Oregon holds 34 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Oregon speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Oregon
Oregon did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Oregon already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Oregon.
What the newspapers recorded in Salem
Searching the Library of Congress run of Oregon newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Salem:
- Capital journal, September 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, August 24, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, January 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, January 12, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Southside Speakeasy by phone on (503) 362-1139, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3529 Fairview Industrial Dr SE, Salem, OR 97302. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Southside Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, 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.