How do you get into Thirsty Cobbler?
We have not confirmed it. Thirsty Cobbler 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, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Thirsty Cobbler occupies the Ocala Historic Commercial District, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 99000656. 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 99000656 · NPS nomination document
Where Thirsty Cobbler sits
Thirsty Cobbler is in Ocala, Florida, in Marion County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Ocala — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Florida page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Thirsty Cobbler are Anti-Monopoly Drug Store, a few doors away.
Florida holds 100 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Florida speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Florida
Florida did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1919, one year before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Florida already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Florida.
What the newspapers recorded in Ocala
Searching the Library of Congress run of Florida newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ocala:
- The Ocala evening star, August 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Ocala evening star, June 20, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Ocala evening star, December 13, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Ocala evening star, March 22, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Thirsty Cobbler by phone on (352) 622-5550 and on Facebook.
The address is 11 E Fort King St, Ocala, FL 34471. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Thirsty Cobbler 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.