Speakeasies

Many Americans ignored Prohibition laws, drinking alcohol at secret bars and clubs known as "speakeasies." ❋ By THE LEARNING NETWORK (2011)

Prohibition in the United States (from 1920 to 1933) banned the sale of alcohol, but there were many illegal places, called speakeasies, where one could toss back a drink or two. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite the smoking ban – because of it, actually – Philadelphia now has "smoke-easies," a play on "speakeasies" that came to us with the Prohibition of alcohol. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Should you be honeymooning in Chicago, there is a once-clandestine side to the "Windy City" which shouldn't be missed: the "speakeasies," the once hidden watering holes which flourished during Prohibition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After these anti-smoking laws become too cumbersome, we'll get our smoking "speakeasies" sorted out, just like the Prohibition days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Manhattan alone, there were five thousand speakeasies at one point in the 1920s. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

From behind his desk in Hamilton Hall, Tugwell could not hear the music but he could see the nightclubs, dance halls, and speakeasies that defined the Jazz Age. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Women, who had been barred from most saloons before Prohibition, were welcome in speakeasies and became regular customers. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Rothstein gained massive wealth first by investing in speakeasies, underground casinos, and horse tracks, then by gambling on poker games, horse races, and sporting events including the 1919 World Series that he “fixed.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

He rose through the ranks by raiding underground speakeasies and gambling parlors that were owned and patronized by blacks. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Thanks to him and other African-American music talents serving in the war, ragtime and blues jazz galvanized audiences overseas well before American whites would mingle with blacks in the speakeasies of the Prohibition era—or, as F. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

These stories are set around Broadway in the less than fashionable neighborhoods and clubs and joints and speakeasies, because he is mostly writing at time when the country is experimenting with enforced tea-totalling which most of the citizens choose not take part in this experiment, and they make him very famous to the point that the city has named a one block section of a street around here Damon Runyon Way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "dream" lasts late into the night at the downtown speakeasies and in Bernal Heights, where Salvadoran pupusas — stuffed with squash, beans and cheese — are for sale until 3 a.m. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed, Mr. Charlap pointed out, with the rise of speakeasies in 1920s came a parallel rise in tempos and rhythms. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

The bar served classic cocktails of the sort that were proffered in teacups in speakeasies during Prohibition. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Modern day speakeasies pay homage to the style and cocktail creations of that era, as well as the disguise of the joint. ❋ Girl At A Bar (2011)

Estimates of the number of speakeasies throughout the United States ranged from 200,000 to 500,000 (Lee, 1963: 68). ❋ Unknown (2009)

We found this incredible Speakeasy close to [Union square] in [San Francisco] when using the [Carizma] App. ❋ CarizmaGuy (2016)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

Wow. Did you hear about Kelly and Lisa’s [speakeasy] party? Yeah! I heard the [password] is ‘[Meat wagon].’ Don’t tell anyone. ❋ Escapedgoldfish (2020)

[Geoff] gave that girl the [hardest] speakeasy I've ever [heard]. ❋ TurboD (2003)

We are [heading] to the [ice rink] to party on Saturday.....[that place] is a regular Covid Speakeasy. ❋ Jon Boi (2020)

[Let's go] get a quarantine speakeasy because we do not have to [wear a mask] or [social distance] ❋ Sunnync (2021)

[Speak Easy] at the SpeakEasy Institute ❋ Ms SpeakEasy (2010)