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 years after it first opened its secret doors. you struggle to sort of re-created the way it was. this is in a dance bar, not a neon bar. it s chumley s. it s chumley s, but it had to be chumley s that were presented also us and the feeling of today. we couldn t possibly recreate every little detail as it was