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
The Blind Tiger is in Colfax, Wisconsin, in Dunn County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Colfax — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Wisconsin page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Tiger are The Blind Tiger Bar & Grill, a few doors away.
Wisconsin holds 44 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Wisconsin speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Wisconsin
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin.
What the newspapers recorded in Wisconsin
Searching the Library of Congress run of Wisconsin newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Wisconsin:
- The Telegraph-courier, November 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, July 26, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Grant County herald, December 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, November 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Tiger we hold a name, a county and a map pin, and nothing else yet: no street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record. That is why this page is short, and why it is a draft rather than a listing.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms and the map tags on the record carry bar-specific detail.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.