How do you get into Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Bit by a Fox Mobile 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy occupies the Carlton State and Savings Bank, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 88000082. 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 88000082 · NPS nomination document
Where Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy sits
Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy is in Carlton, Oregon, in Yamhill County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Carlton — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Oregon page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy are Renegade Mobile Kitchen & Blind Pig Carlton, about 150 m away.
Oregon holds 34 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Oregon speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Oregon
Oregon did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Oregon already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Oregon.
What the newspapers recorded in Oregon
Searching the Library of Congress run of Oregon newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Oregon:
- Capital journal, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- East Oregonian : E.O, January 21, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hood River glacier, January 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, January 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy by phone on (503) 435-7093, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 119 E Main St, Carlton, OR 97111. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Bit by a Fox Mobile Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and 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.