How do you get into The Dungeon & La Bodega?
We have not confirmed it. The Dungeon & La Bodega 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Sherry Cobbler are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Dungeon & La Bodega occupies the Palace Theatre Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 78002109. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 78002109 · NPS nomination document
Where The Dungeon & La Bodega sits
The Dungeon & La Bodega is in Lorain, Ohio, in the county of the same name, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Lorain. If you know another, tell us.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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 Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Dungeon & La Bodega by phone on (440) 288-1533 and on Facebook.
The address is 639 Broadway, Lorain, OH 44052. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Dungeon & La Bodega we hold street address, telephone number, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
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.