Alcohol, Jazz & Prohibition — How Speakeasies & Shebeens in the 1920s & 1940s Fuelled The Rise Of Independent Music In The US & UK

Black & White photo of a 1930s man and woman showing a password to an onlooker behind a door, to get into a nightclub: source — Canva Pro

by Meryana Tamera

I have a big confession to make: I adore the idea of the Speakeasy — those illegal nightclubs that sprung up during America’s Prohibition era (1920–1933), and if I had lived during that time, I would have happily run one, and…