How do you get into Freak City?
We have not confirmed it. Freak City 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Freak City sits
Freak City is in Los Angeles, California, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 33 speakeasies and hidden bars in Los Angeles. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Los Angeles.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Freak City are Dirty Laundry, about 300 m away, Secret Garden, about 350 m away, and Speakeasy Tacos, about 650 m away.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California 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 California.
What the newspapers recorded in Los Angeles
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Los Angeles:
- La opinión, August 9, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, August 16, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, March 30, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, October 10, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Freak City by phone on (213) 446-5413 and through its own website.
The address is 6363 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Freak City we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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.