How do you get into The Bunny Ranch?
We have not confirmed it. The Bunny Ranch 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Bunny Ranch sits
The Bunny Ranch is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in Bernalillo County, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Albuquerque — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the New Mexico page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Bunny Ranch are Teddy Roe’s, about 2.8 km away and Founders Speakeasy, about 6.4 km away.
New Mexico holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Mexico speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Mexico
New Mexico did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two 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, New Mexico already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New Mexico.
What the newspapers recorded in Albuquerque
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Mexico newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Albuquerque:
- The evening herald, June 9, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, April 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The evening herald, June 8, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, August 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Bunny Ranch on Facebook.
The address is 4704 Crest Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108-4507. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Bunny Ranch we hold street address and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.