How do you get into Dirty Laundry?
We have not confirmed it. Dirty Laundry 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Dirty Laundry sits
Dirty Laundry is in Fort Worth, Texas, in Tarrant County, in the Southwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists eight speakeasies and hidden bars in Fort Worth. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Fort Worth.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Dirty Laundry are No Vacancy, a few doors away, Curfew, about 2.2 km away, and Secreto, about 2.4 km away.
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 Dirty Laundry by phone on (817) 420-6181, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1005 Foch St, Fort Worth, TX 76107. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Dirty Laundry 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 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.