How do you get into Cooks Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Cooks 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Cooks Speakeasy sits
Cooks Speakeasy is in Ashland, Oregon, in Jackson County, in the West of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Ashland. If you know another, tell us.
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 Cooks Speakeasy through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 130 Will Dodge Way, Ashland, OR 97520-1946. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Cooks Speakeasy we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, 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 bar.