How do you get into 5 Knocks Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. 5 Knocks 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: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — 5 Knocks Speakeasy occupies the Bryan Carnegie Library, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 76002009. 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 76002009 · NPS nomination document
Where 5 Knocks Speakeasy sits
5 Knocks Speakeasy is in Bryan, Texas, in Brazos County, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Bryan. If you know another, tell us.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas 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, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in Texas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Texas:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, July 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Snyder signal, June 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Laredo weekly times, August 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach 5 Knocks Speakeasy by phone on (979) 822-2000.
The address is 120 S Main St, Bryan, TX 77803-3242. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For 5 Knocks Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
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 bar.