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
The Blind Pig is in Scottsdale, Arizona, in Maricopa County, in the Southwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Scottsdale — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Arizona page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Pig are Speakeasy Lounge, about 3.0 km away.
Arizona holds 25 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Arizona speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Arizona
Arizona 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 Arizona.
What the newspapers recorded in Arizona
Searching the Library of Congress run of Arizona newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Arizona:
- Bisbee daily review, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Arizona republican, April 25, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Douglas daily international, August 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Bisbee daily review, February 21, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Pig by phone on (480) 994-1055 and through its own website.
The address is 3370 N Hayden Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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 food and beverage store.