How do you get into The Press Room?
We have not confirmed it. The Press Room 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Press Room sits
The Press Room is in Greenville, South Carolina, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Greenville — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the South Carolina page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Press Room are Juhl & Co, about 500 m away.
South Carolina holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our South Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in South Carolina
South Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five 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, South Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in South Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in South Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of South Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from South Carolina:
- The Union daily times, August 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Abbeville press and banner, October 21, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The county record, April 20, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Bamberg herald, May 18, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Press Room through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 315 S Main St, Greenville, SC 29601. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Press Room we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a room rather than a bar and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.