How do you get into The Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Speakeasy sits
The Speakeasy is in Columbus, Georgia, in Muscogee County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Columbus. If you know another, tell us.
Georgia holds 41 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Georgia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Georgia
Georgia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Georgia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Georgia.
What the newspapers recorded in Georgia
Searching the Library of Congress run of Georgia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Georgia:
- Americus times-recorder, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel, April 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta semi-weekly journal, March 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta tri-weekly journal, December 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Speakeasy by phone on (706) 561-0411, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3123 Mercury Dr, Columbus, GA 31906. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The 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.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a restaurant.