How do you get into The Blind Tiger?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Tiger 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: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Blind Tiger occupies the Hotel Russel Erskine, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 80000713. 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 80000713 · NPS nomination document
Where The Blind Tiger sits
The Blind Tiger is in Huntsville, Alabama, in Madison County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Huntsville. If you know another, tell us.
Alabama holds ten listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Alabama speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Alabama
Alabama did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five 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, Alabama already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Alabama.
What the newspapers recorded in Alabama
Searching the Library of Congress run of Alabama newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Alabama:
- The Montgomery advertiser, February 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Birmingham age-herald, March 31, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Birmingham age-herald, April 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Birmingham age-herald, September 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Tiger by phone on (256) 206-3950, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 113 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, AL 35801. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Tiger we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as an event or party service.