How do you get into Red Light Union Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Red Light Union 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Red Light Union Speakeasy sits
Red Light Union Speakeasy is in Virginia City, Nevada, in Storey County, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Virginia City. If you know another, tell us.
Nevada holds 28 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Nevada speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Nevada
Nevada 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 Nevada.
What the newspapers recorded in Nevada
Searching the Library of Congress run of Nevada newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Nevada:
- White Pine news weekly mining review, April 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Carson City daily appeal, June 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Silver state, June 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Eureka sentinel, July 3, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Red Light Union Speakeasy by phone on (650) 279-0102 and on Facebook.
The address is 5 N C Street, Virginia City, NV 89440. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Red Light Union Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold 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 an event or party service.