How do you get into Vernon’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Vernon’s 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Vernon’s Speakeasy sits
Vernon’s Speakeasy is in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico, in Bernalillo County, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. If you know another, tell us.
New Mexico holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Mexico speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Mexico
New Mexico did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two 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, New Mexico already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New Mexico.
What the newspapers recorded in New Mexico
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Mexico newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Mexico:
- Albuquerque morning journal, April 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, May 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, January 16, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, February 15, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Vernon’s Speakeasy by phone on (505) 341-0831, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 6855 4th St NW, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87107. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Vernon’s 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.