How do you get into Voysey?
We have not confirmed it. Voysey is in the directory because it a password you have to know, 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Voysey sits
Voysey is in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists fourteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Portland. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Portland.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Voysey are Known Associates Social Club, a few doors away, Gils Speakeasy, about 300 m away, and Speakeasy Tavern, about 300 m away.
Oregon holds 34 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Oregon speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Oregon
Oregon did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Oregon already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Oregon.
What the newspapers recorded in Oregon
Searching the Library of Congress run of Oregon newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Oregon:
- Capital journal, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- East Oregonian : E.O, January 21, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Hood River glacier, January 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Capital journal, January 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Voysey through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 710 SE 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97214. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Voysey 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 the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.