How do you get into The War Room Whiskey Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. The War Room Whiskey Lounge 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: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The War Room Whiskey Lounge sits
Our record places The War Room Whiskey Lounge in Hopkins County, Texas, in the Southwest 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.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The War Room Whiskey Lounge is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
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 Texas
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 Texas:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, July 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Snyder signal, June 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Laredo weekly times, August 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The War Room Whiskey Lounge on Facebook.
The address is 4881 Texas Highway 154 S, TX 75482. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The War Room Whiskey Lounge 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 its own name calls it a lounge and calls it a room rather than a bar and 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.