How do you get into The Speak Easy?
We have not confirmed it. The Speak Easy 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 Speak Easy sits
The Speak Easy is in El Paso, Texas, in the county of the same name, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in El Paso. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in El Paso.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Speak Easy are 1922, about 200 m away, Hush Hush, about 750 m away, and Speakeasy Liquors, about 11.8 km away.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas 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, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in El Paso
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from El Paso:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Speak Easy by phone on (915) 351-0445 and on Facebook.
The address is 303 E Franklin Ave, El Paso, TX 79901-1211. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Speak Easy 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 its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.