How do you get into The Blind Pig Pub?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Pig Pub is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, 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 The Blind Pig Pub sits
The Blind Pig Pub is in Oxford, Mississippi, in Lafayette County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Oxford. If you know another, tell us.
Mississippi holds six listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Mississippi speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Mississippi
Mississippi did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve 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, Mississippi already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Mississippi.
What the newspapers recorded in Mississippi
Searching the Library of Congress run of Mississippi newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Mississippi:
- The Columbus dispatch, January 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Okolona messenger, January 8, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Starkville news, January 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Grenada sentinel, January 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Pig Pub by phone on (662) 234-5119, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 105 North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, MS 38655. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig Pub we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a pub.