How do you get into Take A Guess?
We have not confirmed it. Take A Guess 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Take A Guess sits
Take A Guess is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists thirteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Philadelphia. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Philadelphia.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Take A Guess are Goodbye Horses, about 500 m away, Omertà, about 2.1 km away, and Speakeasy Comedy Philly, about 2.5 km away.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach Take A Guess on Facebook.
What we have confirmed
For Take A Guess we hold social accounts. We do not yet hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.