How do you get into Sideshow Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Sideshow 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Sideshow Speakeasy sits
Sideshow Speakeasy is in Lincoln, Nebraska, in Lancaster County, in the Great Plains of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Lincoln. If you know another, tell us.
Nebraska holds ten listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Nebraska speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Nebraska
Nebraska did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1917, three years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Nebraska already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Nebraska.
What the newspapers recorded in Lincoln
Searching the Library of Congress run of Nebraska newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Lincoln:
- The commoner, September 1, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The commoner, March 1, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The commoner, April 1, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Sideshow Speakeasy by phone on (531) 500-3591 and on Facebook.
The address is 151 N 8th St, Lincoln, NE 68508. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Sideshow 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 and 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.