How do you get into Speak Easy Cafe Inc?
We have not confirmed it. Speak Easy Cafe Inc 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speak Easy Cafe Inc sits
Speak Easy Cafe Inc is in Waterbury, Connecticut, in the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Waterbury. If you know another, tell us.
Connecticut holds eight listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Connecticut speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Connecticut
Connecticut 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.
Connecticut was one of only two states that never ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. National prohibition applied here regardless, and enforcement was correspondingly unenthusiastic.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Connecticut.
What the newspapers recorded in Waterbury
Searching the Library of Congress run of Connecticut newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Waterbury:
- La verita’ = The truth, April 20, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Waterbury Democrat, February 20, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Waterbury Democrat, November 1, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Waterbury Democrat, July 26, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speak Easy Cafe Inc by phone on (203) 573-1776 and on Facebook.
The address is 1089 Highland Ave, Waterbury, CT 06708. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speak Easy Cafe Inc 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 speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.