How do you get into Smokin Rose Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Smokin Rose 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Smokin Rose Speakeasy sits
Smokin Rose Speakeasy is in Charleston, South Carolina, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States. The city sits inside the The Lowcountry metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Charleston. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Charleston.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Smokin Rose Speakeasy are Scotty Doesn’t Know Speakeasy, about 4.3 km away, Scotty Doesn’t Know, about 4.3 km away, and Blind Tiger, about 4.8 km away.
South Carolina holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our South Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in South Carolina
South Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five 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, South Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in South Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in Charleston
Searching the Library of Congress run of South Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Charleston:
- Southern Christian advocate, April 8, 1926 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 21, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 30, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 24, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Smokin Rose Speakeasy by phone on (803) 216-1644 and on Facebook.
The address is 1430 Meeting St Rd, Charleston, SC 29405-9341. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Smokin Rose 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 a bar.