Opening in style: Prohibition brings speakeasy look, feel to downtown

  • Sonja Mattingley (clockwise from left), Karen Raulerson, and Kathy Kaz, patrons at Prohibition, share a toast with Brooke Stalnaker, the establishment’s bar manager, Tuesday night. The bar opened Monday in the Blanche Hotel building downtown. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Sonja Mattingley (clockwise from left), Karen Raulerson, and Kathy Kaz, patrons at Prohibition, share a toast with Brooke Stalnaker, the establishment’s bar manager, Tuesday night. The bar opened Monday in the Blanche Hotel building downtown. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
  • Cimaron Holt (clockwise from left), a co-owner of Prohibition, talks to patrons Stuart Fitzhugh and Tyler Turner on Tuesday night. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Cimaron Holt (clockwise from left), a co-owner of Prohibition, talks to patrons Stuart Fitzhugh and Tyler Turner on Tuesday night. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

    The days of the classic ‘Speakeasy’ may have returned to Lake City.

    Prohibition, a bar — or a fine drinking establishment — designed to resemble the classic bars and nightclubs of the 1920s-30s of…