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After existing for over half-a-decade and surviving a number of police raids, [12] the speakeasy presumably closed by 1926 when Cleon Throckmorton and his first wife Kathryn "Kat" Mullin relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City. [13] Today, the speakeasy's neighborhood is the site of The Green Lantern, a D.C. gay bar. [14]
In June, 2019 Hamilton Hotel opened Via Sophia, an Italian restaurant in the lobby, and Society, a new speakeasy-style cocktail bar. [12] The Hamilton Hotel provides 17,500 square feet (1,630 m 2) to 18,000 square feet (1,700 m 2) of space for events and meetings. In the hotel there are 17 suites, 207 single rooms, 111 double rooms, 318 non ...
Under the right-field pavilion, behind a door guarded by ushers, is a cozy bar with capacity for 99 people and a wall of windows with an up-close, ground-level view of the visitors’ bullpen.
The Speakeasy was a theater and club experience in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco that occurred in January-March 2013 that included the feature of a sliding bookcase that led to "Club 23", a bar and casino parlor. [11] Club 23 was opened after the show, and only "select few patrons" were allowed entrance. [11]
This plan was expanded upon by Carter T. Barron in 1947, as a way to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C., as the U.S. national capital. As Vice Chairman of the Sesquicentennial Commission, Barron envisioned an amphitheatre where "all persons of every race, color and creed" in Washington could attend musical, ballet, theater and other performing arts productions.
Chumley's was a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street, between Grove and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1922 by the socialist activist Leland Stanford Chumley, who converted a former blacksmith's shop near the corner of Bedford and Barrow ...
[Speakeasy]" and became more of a professional magazine than a zine. The June 1988 issue was a double issue, being numbered #86/87. Beginning in the summer of 1988, Speakeasy began being distributed in the United States via Eclipse Comics [6] (which had a co-publishing arrangement with Speakeasy's parent company Acme Press).
PDT, also known as Please Don't Tell, is a speakeasy-style cocktail bar in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. The bar is often cited as the first speakeasy-style bar and thus originator of the modern speakeasy trend, [1] [2] and has influenced the American bar industry in numerous ways, [3] including beginning a sea change in New York City's cocktail culture. [2]