How do you get into The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Black Squirrel Bookstore & 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, Twentieth Century, and White Lady are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy sits
The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy is in St. Cloud, Florida, in Osceola County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in St. Cloud — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Florida page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy are Phyre Steakhouse and Speakeasy, about 200 m away.
Florida holds 100 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Florida speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Florida
Florida did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1919, one year before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Florida already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Florida.
What the newspapers recorded in Florida
Searching the Library of Congress run of Florida newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Florida:
- The Pensacola journal, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Ocala evening star, August 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Lakeland evening telegram, August 10, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Pensacola journal, June 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy by phone on (407) 556-3574, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1118 New York Ave, St. Cloud, FL 34769. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Black Squirrel Bookstore & Speakeasy 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 speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a books, music and video store.