How do you get into Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar is in the directory because it described as hidden, 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar sits
Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar 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 Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar are Hidden Track Bottle Shop & Wine Bar, a few doors away, 36 Below, about 5.1 km away, and Ghost Ship At The Grand, about 5.8 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
What we have confirmed
For Hidden Track Bottle Shop and Wine Bar we hold a name, a county and a map pin, and nothing else yet: no street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record. That is why this page is short, and why it is a draft rather than a listing.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.