How do you get into The Crab Shack?
We have not confirmed it. The Crab Shack 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Crab Shack sits
Our record places The Crab Shack in Ocean County, New Jersey, in the Mid-Atlantic 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.
New Jersey holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Jersey speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Crab Shack is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in New Jersey
New Jersey 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 New Jersey.
What the newspapers recorded in New Jersey
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Jersey newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Jersey:
- The Lambertville record, April 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, February 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, March 29, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, November 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Crab Shack on Facebook.
What we have confirmed
For The Crab Shack we hold social accounts. We do not yet hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because 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.