How do you get into The Blind Rabbit?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Rabbit 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: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Blind Rabbit occupies the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association Packing House, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 15000379. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 15000379 · NPS nomination document
Where The Blind Rabbit sits
The Blind Rabbit is in Anaheim, California, in Orange County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Anaheim. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Anaheim.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Rabbit are The Lilly Belle, about 2.5 km away, Detention, about 3.3 km away, and Hidden Cafe, about 4.4 km away.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California 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 California.
What the newspapers recorded in California
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Rabbit through its own website and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 440 S Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Rabbit we hold street address, official website, social accounts, an online booking link, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, or a published drinks list.
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.