How do you get into Ghost Ship At The Grand?
We have not confirmed it. Ghost Ship At The Grand 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Ghost Ship At The Grand sits
Ghost Ship At The Grand is in Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa County, in the Southwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in Phoenix. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Phoenix.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Ghost Ship At The Grand are Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar, about 5.8 km away, Hidden Track Bottle Shop & Wine Bar, about 5.8 km away, and 36 Below, about 7.9 km away.
Arizona holds 25 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Arizona speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Arizona
Arizona 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 Arizona.
What the newspapers recorded in Phoenix
Searching the Library of Congress run of Arizona newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Phoenix:
- The Arizona gleam, June 24, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Arizona republican, September 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Arizona gleam, April 15, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Arizona republican, November 2, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Ghost Ship At The Grand by phone on (480) 265-0724.
The address is 718 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004-2001. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Ghost Ship At The Grand we hold street address and telephone number. We do not yet hold official website, 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.