How do you get into The First Round?
We have not confirmed it. The First Round 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, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The First Round sits
The First Round is in Yuma, Arizona, in the county of the same name, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Yuma. If you know another, tell us.
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 First Round by phone on (928) 508-5196 and on Facebook.
The address is 333 S Main St, Yuma, AZ 85364. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The First Round 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 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.