How do you get into A Light in the Attic?
We have not confirmed it. A Light in the Attic 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: Sazerac, Ward Eight, and Scofflaw are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where A Light in the Attic sits
A Light in the Attic is in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in Berks County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in West Reading. If you know another, tell us.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach A Light in the Attic by phone on (610) 396-2842 and on Facebook.
The address is 719 Penn Ave, West Reading, PA 19611. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For A Light in the Attic we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
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.