How do you get into The Cabinet of Curiosities?
We have not confirmed it. The Cabinet of Curiosities is in the directory because it a hidden entrance, 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.
Where The Cabinet of Curiosities sits
The Cabinet of Curiosities is in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Clark County, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 19 speakeasies and hidden bars in Las Vegas. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Las Vegas.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Cabinet of Curiosities are The Lock Speakeasy at Horseshoe Las Vegas, a few doors away, The Secret Saloon, about 200 m away, and Ski Lodge, about 850 m away.
Nevada holds 28 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Nevada speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Nevada
Nevada 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 Nevada.
What the newspapers recorded in Las Vegas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Nevada newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Las Vegas:
- Las Vegas age, June 7, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, April 7, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, July 2, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Las Vegas age, April 14, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Cabinet of Curiosities by phone on (833) 855-2888, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3645 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Cabinet of Curiosities 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 the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.