How do you get into Speakeasy / Secret Spot?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy / Secret Spot is in the directory because it described as secret, 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speakeasy / Secret Spot sits
Speakeasy / Secret Spot is in Denver, Colorado, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists eleven speakeasies and hidden bars in Denver. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Denver.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy / Secret Spot are Rose & Thorn, a few doors away, Maddie’s Speakeasy & Distillery, about 400 m away, and Mario’s Speakeasy Pizza, about 550 m away.
Colorado holds 37 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Colorado speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Colorado
Colorado 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, Colorado already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Colorado.
What the newspapers recorded in Denver
Searching the Library of Congress run of Colorado newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Denver:
- The Denver Jewish news, January 4, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, October 20, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Denver Jewish news, May 25, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, March 15, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy / Secret Spot by phone on (720) 394-4546 and on Facebook.
The address is 1766 Blake St, Denver, CO 80202-1226. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy / Secret Spot 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 secret and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a coffee shop.