![]() ![]() ![]() “There is so much amazing stuff that is just beneath the surface.” 130 N. “What I love about the secret library at Valley Bar is, it only seats about 20 people,” says Shore, who has his own group (Marshall Shore Retro Spectacular) and lectures about Phoenicians like “Trunk Murderess” Winnie Ruth Judd. Browse the bookshelves and find reads ranging from Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary to Playboy’s Wine & Spirits Cookbook to Nancy Reagan’s memoir. Formerly a storage room, the floral-wallpapered space welcomes local literary collective Four Chambers Press and its Get Lit salons the first Thursday of every month, and hosts “Hip Historian” Marshall Shore and his monthly History Underground on second Sundays. On any given night, unknown to most folks in Valley Bar’s main basement lounge, the Rose Room, a group of people may be packed into a tucked-away library hidden behind the wine racks and under the stairs, discussing the apocalypse, or maybe infamous local murders, or the lost art of neon signs. Our Favorite The Secret Library at Valley Bar That said, it’s still fun to pretend (and to have to know a password, even!) in these totally legit but largely unknown speakeasy-esque environs. Why the quotation marks? Well, a lot of bars with liquor licenses toss the term around to describe the underground style and vibe of their establishments, but the fact is, unless a club is serving alcohol illegally and secretly – à la Prohibition – it’s not a real speakeasy. From secret rooms and speakeasies to bomb shelters and places to buy dead things in jars, here’s your guide to the underside of Central Arizona. Metro Phoenix and its surrounds may hold the majority of the state’s residents, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t treasures to be unearthed – quite the contrary, in fact. ![]()
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