How do you get into 36 Below?
We have not confirmed it. 36 Below is in the directory because it a concealed way in, 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 36 Below sits
36 Below is in Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa County, in the Southwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in Phoenix. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Phoenix.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to 36 Below are Hidden Track Bottle Shop & Wine Bar, about 5.0 km away, Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar, about 5.1 km away, and Ghost Ship At The Grand, about 7.9 km away.
Arizona holds 25 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Arizona speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Arizona
Arizona 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 Arizona.
What the newspapers recorded in Phoenix
Searching the Library of Congress run of Arizona newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Phoenix:
- The Arizona gleam, June 24, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Arizona republican, September 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Arizona gleam, April 15, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Arizona republican, November 2, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 36 Below by phone on (480) 336-8812, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 3620 East Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85018. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 36 Below 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 the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.