The only major change made to the speakeasy by the homeowners was to widen the windows.
It opened in 1972, but the pub has the vintage feel of the speakeasy the space once held.
The tavern hosts comedy events put on by the Speakeasy Improv Players.
Sue Thompson was a newsroom assistant at BBC Leeds at the time Jimmy Savile was presenting the regional Speakeasy programme in 1978.
The unassuming, speakeasy-esque cocktail bar, located in the back room of landmark restaurant Cole's French Dip and which features a rotating list of only five cocktails, lost out in previous years at the annual cocktail industry award to New York bars Death and Co in 2010 and Employees Only in 2011.
According to the homeowner Patricia Dodson, the house likely operated as a speakeasy during the heyday of Prohibition.
Like the Green Mill, the Green Door Tavern, another former speakeasy in the River North area, has kept much of its olde timey charm.
For decades the venue operated as a speakeasy, but when the police threatened to close it down a few years ago, the city rallied and a special provision was passed to exempt buildings on the National Historic Register (including the foundation) from the prevailing liquor laws.
In Atlantic City 15 years ago, when boxing cards could still sell out every hotel room in town, Bert arranged for a room at the Irish Pub, a former speakeasy that stays open around the clock and rents rooms above the bar to friends (Joe DiMaggio was a regular back in the day).
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It was among the first in the city to honour speakeasy culture when it opened a seating-room only, craft cocktail lounge in June 2009.
The Family Planning Association runs Speakeasy courses helping parents to communicate with their children about difficult subjects like growing up, relationships and sex.
At the Wooly, a modified speakeasy with antique upholstered couches and wall sconces, Yorke wore a gray T-shirt and stared at a laptop on a stand.
Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a phone booth outside the bar, and a concealed door swings open to reveal a classic cocktail joint that swaggers with the decadence of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.
In New York City, a former speakeasy crawl could start at the 21 Club.
It aims for a prohibition-era New York speakeasy vibe and, as the name would suggest, offers a wide range of martinis.
Next, head uptown to the Green Mill jazz club, formerly a speakeasy run by Capone, and still a fantastic place to catch a jazz show.
On March 26, The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article by Yannick LeJacq in their Speakeasy online entertainment magazine.
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Dinner with speakeasy drinks at 732 Social and brunch at Toast on Market the next day are a winning exacta bet.
New speakeasy-style bars in New York City pay homage to the 1920s.
The first meeting between Mr. Clooney and Ms. Zellweger in a hotel lobby sets the tone for all their dull subsequent matchups -- in a Pullman stateroom, and speakeasy, on a building ledge and motorcycle.
With a strict reservations-only policy (852-2810-6969) and limited seating, this speakeasy-style watering hole forbids big groups and photography but serves up some of the best-mixed cocktails in town, such as an excellent gimlet, as well as a spot-on grilled cheese sandwich to the accompaniment of soft jazz.
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