How do you get into The Backroom Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. The Backroom Lounge is in the directory because it period concealment name, 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 The Backroom Lounge sits
Our record places The Backroom Lounge in Mills County, Iowa, in the Midwest of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Iowa holds 16 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Iowa speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Backroom Lounge is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Iowa
Iowa 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, Iowa already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Iowa.
What the newspapers recorded in Iowa
Searching the Library of Congress run of Iowa newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Iowa:
- Evening times-Republican, January 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Decorah-posten og ved arnen, January 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat, February 17, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening times-Republican, March 10, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Backroom Lounge by phone on (712) 526-2073, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 23226 Centre Dr, IA 51534. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Backroom 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 names a back room and calls it a lounge.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a lounge.