USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -speakeasy, also called blind pig or gin joint, place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold, especially such establishments in the United States during Prohibition (1920–33). In more recent years the term has also applied to legal bars that are modeled on historical speakeasies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Speakeasies received their name from police officers who had trouble locating the bars due to the fact that people tended to speak quietly while inside the bars. Speakeasies received their name from bartenders who requested that patrons “speak easy” while inside the bars.

Detailed explanation-3: -A speakeasy is an establishment in the business of selling alcoholic beverages illegally. They became widespread in the United States during the Prohibition era from 1920 to 1933.

Detailed explanation-4: -Millions of people in small towns and large cities imbibed at secret taverns and bars called speakeasies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Harlem, the city’s black district, had its “hooch joints” inside apartments and the famed Cotton Club, owned by mobster Owney Madden, on 142nd Street. Owners of speakeasies, not their drinking customers, ran afoul of the federal liquor law, the Volstead Act.