How do you get into The Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, 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, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Blind Pig sits
Our record places The Blind Pig in Allen County, Kentucky, in the Deep South 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.
Kentucky holds 20 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Kentucky speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Blind Pig is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Kentucky
Kentucky brought in its own statewide prohibition in 1920, the same year the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. State and federal law arrived together here, and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Kentucky.
What the newspapers recorded in Kentucky
Searching the Library of Congress run of Kentucky newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Kentucky:
- The public ledger, July 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, February 3, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Mountain advocate, August 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, July 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Pig by phone on (317) 703-4543 and on Facebook.
The address is 338 Blunt Ford Rd, KY 42120. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig 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 uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.