Jimi Hendrix's Mom Worked At This Legendary Speakeasy, Recently Discovered Still Sealed Up Since Prohibition

In 2018 SeattleArtifacts reported the discovery of one of Seattle’s most fabled speakeasy, Bucket of Blood, still sealed up since 1931.

Official named, The Hong Kong Chinese Society, people in the know referred to this now legendary speakeasy as The Bucket of Blood, due to the enormous tin cups they served beer in.

Here an underage Lucille Jeter, Jimi Hendrix mother, found work as a waitress in the 1920s during the prohibition. She served drinks and occasionally provided part of the entertainment. “She would sing,” her sister Delores Hall recalled, “and men would give her tips because she was such a good singer.”

Lucille Jeter

The Bucket of Blood was raided and shut down by Federal Prohibition Agents in 1931 and sat mostly abandoned for 87 years until it was uncovered during expansive renovations to the old Louisa Hotel in Seattle’s Chinatown distric in 2018.

Old murals line a staircase that used to lead to a 1920’s era jazz club in a basement of the Louisa Hotel building in the Chinatown International District, in Seattle, WA on February 9, 2018. (© Karen Ducey)

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Jimi Hendrix’s Mom Worked At This Legendary Speakeasy, Recently Discovered Still Sealed Up Since Prohibition