Today Williams & Graham Booksellers opens in Denver, Colo. The store will stock "cocktail books, the works of famous drunken authors (think Hemingway) and bar tools," Westword reported. More important than the titles, however, is a bookcase with a hidden handle that opens into a hallway leading to a "Prohibition-inspired speakeasy." There will be no signage or other indication that the bookstore is mainly a front for a bar.
Williams & Graham hoped to open earlier this year but had construction and liquor license delays. "There are still some finishes that need to be done, and we've got about 1,000 books coming in in the next day and a half, but we're opening," co-owner Sean Kenyon said. "I would bartend on a sawhorse if I had to."
Williams & Graham is located at 3160 Tejon St., Denver, Colo. 80211.
