How do you get into Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. 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.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy occupies the Parrott Insurance Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 77000416. 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 77000416 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy sits
Speakeasy is in Athens, Georgia, in Clarke County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists six speakeasies and hidden bars in Athens. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Athens.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy are Blind Pig Tavern, about 200 m away, Blind Pig Tavern, about 600 m away, and Blind Pig Tavern, about 4.2 km away.
Georgia holds 41 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Georgia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Georgia
Georgia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve 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, Georgia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Georgia.
What the newspapers recorded in Georgia
Searching the Library of Congress run of Georgia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Georgia:
- Americus times-recorder, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel, April 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta semi-weekly journal, March 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta tri-weekly journal, December 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy by phone on (706) 546-5556 and through its own website.
The address is 269 E Broad St, Athens, GA 30601. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold 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 a casual eatery.