How do you get into Duck Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Duck 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 Duck Speakeasy sits
Duck Speakeasy is in Somerville, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, in the Northeast of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Somerville — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Massachusetts page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Duck Speakeasy are The Olde Mouldy, about 900 m away.
Massachusetts holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Massachusetts speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Massachusetts
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts.
What the newspapers recorded in Massachusetts
Searching the Library of Congress run of Massachusetts newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Massachusetts:
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, March 1, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 19, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Springfield weekly Republican, July 26, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Duck Speakeasy on Facebook.
The address is 38 Hanson St, Somerville, MA 02143-3735. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Duck Speakeasy we hold street address and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, 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.