How do you get into Olds Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Olds Bar 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: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Olds Bar sits
Olds Bar is in Providence, Rhode Island, in the county of the same name, in the Northeast of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Providence. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Providence.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Olds Bar are The Jake Speakeasy Lounge, about 1000 m away, Hide Speakeasy, about 2.5 km away, and Campus Dance, about 2.8 km away.
Rhode Island holds ten listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Rhode Island speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Rhode Island
Rhode Island 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.
Rhode Island was one of only two states that never ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. National prohibition applied here regardless, and enforcement was correspondingly unenthusiastic.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Rhode Island.
Planning a visit
You can reach Olds Bar by phone on (401) 255-2110, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 480 Douglas Ave, Providence, RI 02908. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Olds Bar 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.