How do you get into Speakeasy Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Lounge 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speakeasy Lounge sits
Speakeasy Lounge is in Atlanta, Georgia, in Fulton County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists seven speakeasies and hidden bars in Atlanta. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Atlanta.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy Lounge are Edgewood Speakeasy, about 4.1 km away, Red Phone Booth, about 4.3 km away, and Prince Place Cigar Bar, about 11.2 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 Atlanta
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 Atlanta:
- Atlanta daily world, May 25, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta daily world, June 17, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta daily world, June 16, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Atlanta daily world, July 22, 1932 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Lounge by phone on (404) 752-7912, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1187 Ira St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310-3656. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Lounge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold 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 lounge and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a lounge.