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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Blind Tiger sits
Our record places The Blind Tiger in the St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, in the Deep South of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Blind Tiger is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana 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 Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in Louisiana
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Louisiana:
- St. Landry clarion, May 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The St. Charles herald, May 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Bogalusa enterprise and American, July 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The weekly Iberian, September 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Tiger by phone on (985) 707-1082 and through its own website.
The address is 37330 Lakeshore Marina Dr, LA 70461. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Tiger we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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.