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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Blind Tiger sits
The Blind Tiger is in Kansas City, Missouri, in Jackson County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Kansas City. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Kansas City.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Tiger are Manifesto, about 3.8 km away, Swordfish Tom’s, about 3.9 km away, and P.S. Speakeasy, about 5.0 km away.
Missouri holds 19 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Missouri speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Missouri
Missouri 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 Missouri.
What the newspapers recorded in Missouri
Searching the Library of Congress run of Missouri newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Missouri:
- Potosi journal, May 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hayti herald, May 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Holt County sentinel, July 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hayti herald, October 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Tiger by phone on (816) 599-2908, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3945 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64111. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Tiger 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.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.