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Forensic historian who dedicates his time to digging into chumley's rich history. >> is the door original, do we know? >> it is. it's been refurbished, but it is the door. everything about it is the same door. >> jon: 86 bedford wasn't the preferred entrance to this once illicit establishment. there was a secret side door the better-known customers would use.sh >> this would have been the secret entrance. >> a little higher, you will see the little window. >> oh, yeah. >> and the list of regulars who could use that secret entrance was certainly distinguished. >> it was a speakeasy but it was a...

Kept and police raids frequent. bar owners developed warning systems to try to frustrate the cops.r one of those pubs still stands today in new york city's west village.ps welcome to chumley's. >> i don't think the legacy of any owner really matters, i think chumley's itself is its own animal and beast. chumley's is chumley's and we can never replace that. >> jon: opened during prohibition in 1922, chumley's was a haven for many of america's literary giants. f. scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway, and john steinbeck drink here. alex bourguignon owns it now. 95 years after it first opened its se...

Clubs. speakeasy secrets were poorly capped and police raids frequent. bar owners are developed warning systems to try to frustrate the cops. one of those pubs still stands today in new york city's west village. welcome to chumley's. >> i don't think the legacy of any really matters, i think chumley's itself is its own animal and beast. chumley's is trombley's and we can never replace that. >> jon: opened during prohibition in 1922, chumley's was a haven for many of america's literary giants. f. scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway and john steinbeck drink here. alex bourguignon owns it now. 95 ...

Today as chumley's patron f. scott fitzgerald wistfully wrote, "the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, and the morals were looser." >> he is said to have regretted the end of prohibition because a place like this lost its luster. >> that party scene and regret, sometimes i think it fed his writing. it was his characters, his whole background. "the great gatsby" that he wrote, the jazz age frenzy that those raucous years created were actually part and parcel to what he wrote. probably moving ahead he didn't see the kind of excitement that he had seen back in the day. >> jon: when prohibi...

Speakeasies are still remembered today as chumley's patron f. scott fitzgerald wistfully wrote, the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, and the morals were looser. >> he is said to have regretted the end of prohibition because a place like this lost its luster. >> that party scene and regret, sometimes i think it fed his writing. it was his characters, his whole background. the great gatsby that he wrote, the jazz age frenzy that those raucous years created were actually partial to what he wrote. probably moving ahead he didn't see the kind of excitement that he had seen back in the day....