How do you get into The Bookstore Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Bookstore Speakeasy 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, Twentieth Century, and White Lady are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Bookstore Speakeasy sits
The Bookstore Speakeasy is in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in Northampton County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Bethlehem — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Pennsylvania page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Bookstore Speakeasy are Blind Tiger Coffee, about 2.8 km away.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach The Bookstore Speakeasy by phone on (610) 867-1100, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 336 Adams St, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Bookstore Speakeasy 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 calls it a speakeasy and 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.