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: -A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages, or a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies.

Detailed explanation-3: -These establishments were called speakeasies, a place where, during the Prohibition, alcoholic beverages were illegally sold and consumed in secret. In addition to drinking, patrons would eat, socialize, and dance to jazz music.

Detailed explanation-4: -The real trouble was how to conceal its production, transportation and sale from the law. For most Bootleggers the Sale of Alcohol was hidden within the walls of establishments called speakeasies, blind pigs, blind tigers, beer flats or rat dives.