How do you get into The Blind Pig Tavern?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Pig Tavern 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: 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 Blind Pig Tavern sits
Our record places The Blind Pig Tavern in St. Louis County, Minnesota, 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.
Minnesota holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Minnesota speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Blind Pig Tavern is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Minnesota
Minnesota 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 Minnesota.
What the newspapers recorded in Minnesota
Searching the Library of Congress run of Minnesota newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Minnesota:
- The Duluth rip-saw, January 10, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The labor world, January 24, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Princeton union, February 12, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Redwood gazette, June 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Pig Tavern by phone on (218) 240-9142, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 9602 Gamma Rd, MN 56669. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig Tavern 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 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.