How do you get into Speakeasy Arts Cooperative?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Arts Cooperative 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy Arts Cooperative occupies the Rhodes Medical Arts Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 78002769. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 78002769 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy Arts Cooperative sits
Speakeasy Arts Cooperative is in Tacoma, Washington, in Pierce County, in the West of the United States. The city sits inside the Puget Sound metropolitan area.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Tacoma. If you know another, tell us.
Washington holds 29 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Washington speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Washington
Washington did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Washington already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Washington.
What the newspapers recorded in Washington
Searching the Library of Congress run of Washington newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Washington:
- The Leavenworth echo, January 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Seattle star, January 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Seattle star, August 3, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Seattle star, November 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Arts Cooperative by phone on (253) 336-5483.
The address is 746 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402-3710. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Arts Cooperative we hold street address, telephone number, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
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 art gallery.