"for dead at the Newark city dump, he moved to Key West, Florida, in 1948. In 1982, told the story that he in Sting fashion had cheated mob by using telephone to get early race results. There he became a shrimper, a charter boat captain, and a gunrunner. From 1961, Tarracino was the proprietor of Captain Tony's Saloon at 428 Greene Street in Key West, the original location of Sloppy Joe's bar frequented by Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s (the current Sloppy Joe's is located a few doors away at 201 Duval Street). He sold the bar in 1989 but"
"The Millburn Deli in Millburn is a noted sloppy joe maker. The Town Hall Deli in South Orange claims to have invented the New Jersey sloppy joe in the 1930s. According to the deli's owner, a Maplewood politician, Thomas Sweeney, returned from a vacation in Cuba, where he spent time at a bar named Sloppy Joe's—from which the Key West bar obtained its name. The bar's owner laid out fixings for patrons, who put sandwiches together. Sweeney asked Town Hall to cater his poker games with the same sort of sandwiches, and they caught on. In the '50s, several Jewish"
"came from Havana to Key West and it was reported all over the world from this building.In 1912, the building was home to a cigar factory. Later, it was a bordello and a bar popular with the Navy until it was forced out of business. After that, it became several speakeasies, the last of which was named The Blind Pig, specializing in gambling, women, and bootleg rum. By the 1930s, a local named Josie Russell bought the business and created Sloppy Joe's Bar. This was where Ernest Hemingway spent most of his evenings between 1933 and 1937. In 1938, when"
"Stanley Rose Stanley Rose (December 5, 1899 – October 17, 1954) was an American bookseller, literary agent and raconteur whose eponymous Hollywood bookshop, located (from 1935 until its closure in 1939) adjacent to the famous Musso & Frank Grill restaurant, was a gathering place for writers working or living in and around Hollywood. Rose’s most notable literary associates were William Saroyan, to whom he was variously a friend, a drinking and hunting companion, and a literary representative; and Nathanael West, whose 1939 novel ""The Day of the Locust"" owed much of its “local color” to its author’s acquaintance with Rose."
"the building's landlord raised the rent one dollar per week, Russell and his customers picked up the entire bar and moved everything to Sloppy Joe's current location at 201 Duval Street. The bar then went through several iterations until 1958, when Captain Tony Tarracino, a local charter boat captain, purchased the bar and named it Captain Tony's Saloon. As Captain Tony's, the bar is where Jimmy Buffett got his start in Key West. Buffett played Capt. Tony's in the early '70s, and was often paid in tequila. Buffett immortalized the bar, & Tarracino himself, in his song ""Last Mango in"
"Captain Tony's Saloon Captain Tony's Saloon is a bar located at 428 Greene Street (eastern street side), in Key West, Florida, United States. The bar has been patronized through the years by many well-known artists, writers and celebrities. In fact, an interesting feature of the bar is that when any celebrity visits, a barstool is added with that patron's name. You will find barstools painted with the names of famous people such as Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Jimmy Buffett, Shel Silverstein, John Prine, and even John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman, among others. Above the sign outside the building is"
"University of Pennsylvania. After college, he began to restore buildings in the inner city of Philadelphia. He is credited with having begun the rejuvenation of Society Hill and Rittenhouse Square in that city. Wolkowsky returned to Key West in late 1962, after the death of his father, Isaac Wolkowsky. The family had a few properties in ""old town"" Key West and Wolkowsky decided to ""retire"" to Key West at the age of 40. Unable to sit still, he rescued a condemned bar on family land on Greene Street, which was the original home of ""Sloppy Joe's"" of Hemingway fame. From"
"Larry Sloman Larry ""Ratso"" Sloman (born 1950) is a New York-based author. Sloman was born into a middle-class Jewish family from Queens. He is best known for his collaboration with Howard Stern on the radio personality's two best-selling books, ""Private Parts"" and ""Miss America"". He also appears in all of Kinky Friedman's mystery novels as the Dr. Watson to Kinky's Sherlock. Sloman wrote an account of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, ""On the Road with Bob Dylan"". He has also penned ""Reefer Madness"", a history of marijuana use in the United States, ""Thin Ice"", an account of one"
"was a magnet for American celebrities as well as tourists wanting to mingle with them. It has been described by the Los Angeles Times as ""one of the most famous bars in the world"" with ""almost the status of a shrine."" The Cuban Revolution of 1959 saw the bar's business nosedive, as some 90% of Sloppy Joe's clientele was American. A fire in the 60s closed the establishment for good. The building in which the bar was housed remained intact, resembling a ghost town with its single-piece mahogany bar and photos of celebrities. The slow-paced, extensive restoration, undertaken by The"
"to him; the nerves in his writing hand took as long as a year to heal, during which time he suffered intense pain. His third son, Gregory Hancock Hemingway, was born a year later on November 12, 1931, in Kansas City. Pauline's uncle bought the couple a house in Key West with a carriage house, the second floor of which was converted into a writing studio. Its location across the street from the lighthouse made it easy for Hemingway to find after a long night of drinking. While in Key West, Hemingway frequented the local bar Sloppy Joe's. He invited"
"Book Soup Book Soup is an independent bookstore located at 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, and is the largest general interest independent bookstore in Hollywood. The store is ""known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele..."" Popular with many in the entertainment industry, the store continues to hosts events featuring a variety of celebrity authors who have so far included Muhammad Ali, Howard Stern, Annie Leibovitz, Chuck Palahniuk, Jenna Jameson, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, and The Doors. Considered a ""cultural fixture"" of the Sunset Strip,"
"Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic bar located in Havana, Cuba. The bar reopened in 2013 after being closed for 48 years. The advent of Prohibition in the United States spurred its original owner, Jose Abeal Otero, to change the emphasis from food service to liquor service when American tourists would visit Havana for the nightlife, the gambling and the alcohol they could not obtain back home. Sloppy Joe's welcomed tourists for over four decades, and offered over 80 cocktails in addition to the bar's own brand of 12-year-old rum. During the 1940s and 1950s it"
"San Remo Cafe The San Remo Cafe was a bar at 93 MacDougal Street at the corner of Bleecker Street in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village. It was a hangout for Bohemians and writers such as James Agee, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Billy Name, Frank O'Hara, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, William Styron, Dylan Thomas, Gore Vidal, Judith Malina and many others. It opened in 1925 closed in 1967. Jack Kerouac described the bar's crowd in his novel ""The Subterraneans"": On July 29, 2013, the Greenwich"
"West. Other literary regulars include William Saroyan, Dashiell Hammett, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elliot Paul, and Donald Ogden Stewart. By the 1940s the restaurant was so firmly identified with the Los Angeles literary scene that aspiring writers, e.g. Charles Bukowski, would drink there in a conscious effort to imitate their role models. Eminent California historian Kevin Starr has said that a list of writers who frequented Musso and Frank resembles ""the list of required reading for a sophomore survey of the mid-twentieth-century American novel."" Important Los Angeles progressives and communists were identified with Musso and"
"of the several welfare and single-room occupancy hotels in the area. Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Landes Lewitin, Aristodimos Kaldis, Phillip Guston, Knute Stiles, Ted Joans, James Brooks, Charles Cajori, Mercedes Matter, Howard Kanovitz, Al Leslie and others of the New York School all patronized the bar in the 1950s when many lived in or near Greenwich Village. Historians consider it an important incubator of the Abstract Expressionist movement. It was also popular with writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara, George Plimpton, Jean Stein, Harold ""Doc"" Humes, Alex Trocchi, and LeRoi"
"""There's Something About Mary"" In 1913, ""Hungarian-born Joe Weiss"" arrived in Miami Beach from New York hoping to relieve his asthma. Five years later, he opened up the ""original Joe's Restaurant"" in the front room of the bungalow he shared with his wife Jennie on Biscayne Street. In 1921, an icthyologist noticed the large number of stone crabs in the area and brought them to Joe to find out if they were edible. And as Patricia Schultz says, ""And so an institution was born."" Famous guests have included Al Capone, Frank Sinatra and Howard Cosell. In 1999, Lettuce Entertain You"
"friends included author Philip Wylie, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Novelist Hervey Allen, distinguished poet, teacher, and author of the bestselling novel Anthony Adverse, called Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Muir, ""the Stewart Avenue Gang"" because they were neighbors and friends for many years. The two were fond of having sherry together and gossiping, but those moments were followed by serious talk of the future of libraries, and the role of women in South Florida. They were confidants, and often shared their work with one another. Muir was also very close friends with Robert Wright and George Forrest. Helen had a lifelong"
"to Hollywood Florida to open the Gold Coast Restaurant and Lounge. According to police reports, the Gold Coast was heavily used as a meeting point for Mafia members. Joseph Sonken denied those allegations in front of a Kefauver committee in 1968. Among the famous guests were Mafia members John Gotti, Joseph Todaro Sr., and Edward Sciandra. Public stars such as Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant were also known as regular customers, and the restaurant is mentioned in the FBI's JFK assassination files and in Elmore Leonard's novel ""Gold Coast"". Joseph Sonken was arrested in 1972 for illegal gambling, but those"
"on Sloppy Joe's was completed in early 2013, and its doors opened to the public on April 12th of that year. The facade closely resembles the images from the 1950s, even down to the sign on the corner, above the arches. Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic bar located in Havana, Cuba. The bar reopened in 2013 after being closed for 48 years. The advent of Prohibition in the United States spurred its original owner, Jose Abeal Otero, to change the emphasis from food service to liquor service when American tourists would visit Havana for the"
"store became an important literary center for the Southwest sponsoring literary readings and plays as well as serving as a home for Slough Press. Business owners John and Marquetta Tilton of Dallas opened several store locations run by famous Texas poets and writers who had not yet achieved widespread notoriety: poet Dr. Ricardo Sanchez in San Antonio and Dr. Hedwig Gorski's infamous Voltaire's Basement bookstore in downtown Austin. All branches of Paperbacks Plus allowed serious poets to live with their families on the store premises while providing a small income managing or selling at the location. Each became a hub"
"international periodicals and newspapers. In the late 1980s, Book Soup moved two blocks further down Sunset Boulevard to its current, more spacious location and expanded to 50,000 titles. It also began earning a reputation for art, photography, film and music books as well as for hosting high-profile events featuring authors and celebrities such as Gore Vidal, James Ellroy, Mikal Gilmore, Edward Albee, Robert Wagner, and Tom Stoppard. A second Book Soup store at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, opened in 2002 but closed in 2007 due to high rent and the impact of competition from Amazon.com and large"
"John Clellon Holmes John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 30, 1988, Middletown, Connecticut) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel ""Go"". Considered the first ""Beat"" novel, ""Go"" depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the ""quiet Beat"" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends. Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, ""The Horn"". Holmes was more an observer and documenter of beat characters like Ginsberg, Cassady and Kerouac than"
"of perspective and authentic action. Contributing artists and writers worked in Stephen Slesinger, Inc's New York Studio and contributed to Red Ryder, over the years, including Jim Gary, Edmund Good, John Wade (""Johnnie"") Hampton, Robert MacLeod, and Bill Lignanti (of The Palm Restaurant fame) and Stephen Slesinger who drew detailed story boards and scripted and approved all of the stories until his death in 1953, when Shirley Slesinger stepped into her husband's shoes, working closely with Bill Lignanti and Jay Rowland. Charlie Dye, Johnnie Hampton, Joe Beeler, and George Phippen were co-founders of the Cowboy Artists of America of which"
"house and guest house on the island and entertained many of his writer friends there, including Tennessee Williams and Capote. He is known for serving hot dogs, white wine and potato chips to guests including British Prime Minister Edward Heath, various Rockefellers, Mellons and Vanderbilts. During construction of the island Wolkowsky sent his private barge out to the island loaded with building supplies as well as with chocolate pudding and souffles, from The Pier House kitchens, for his laborers. Wolkowsky continued to restore dozens of homes around Key West, as well as building the original ""Reach Resort"" across town. He"
"readings by noted authors, including Christopher Isherwood, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Larry Kramer. Subsequently, additional branches were opened in West Hollywood (1990), San Francisco, and Greenwich Village in Manhattan. The original store closed in 1992, as have the branches in Greenwich Village, West Hollywood, and San Francisco. Tensions in the 1970s between the growing gay and lesbian population and working-class Latino families in the Silver Lake neighborhood led the integrated lesbian and gay Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance to organize the first Sunset Junction Street Fair in 1980. Sunset Junction, Los Angeles Sunset Junction is an informal name for a"
"the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late"
"of the Quill and Dagger society. He has two daughters. Joey Green Joey Green (born May 26, 1958) is an American author. He has written over fifty books and has been a guest on Good Morning America, The View, The Tonight Show. He is a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. He has also written commercials for Burger King, Disney World, and Eastman Kodak. He was born in Miami, Florida. He graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1980, where he founded the humor publication, ""The Cornell Lunatic"", was political"
"Other notable guests included Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, Yogi Berra, and Ernest Hemingway (Berra and Hemingway allegedly met there). While the food at Toots Shor's Restaurant was known to be “nuttin’ fancy” — standard American, sports-bar fare such as shrimp cocktail, steak, baked potato — the establishment became well known for who frequented there and how Shor interacted with them. Shor was a raconteur and a master of the ""needle,"" jibes or quips directed at the famous. Celebrity alone was not enough to receive first-class service in Shor's restaurant. According to David Halberstam in his book"
"bookstore ""Geiger's"" in Chandler's ""The Big Sleep"", published in 1939. William Saroyan, generally regarded as Rose’s best friend among the writers, wrote various short pieces about Rose and the bookshop, and anecdotes about “Stanley the bookseller” pop up in many of his published works. The bookshop and its proprietor also figure in numerous writers’ memoirs, including those by John Bright, Lester Cole, John Sanford, Budd Schulberg, and others. Rose’s haphazard approach to business led to the closure of the shop in mid-1939—ironically, barely a month after the publication of Nathanael West’s acerbic novel about the underbelly of Hollywood life, ""The"
"Tony Tarracino Tony Tarracino (August 10, 1916 – November 1, 2008), commonly called Captain Tony, was an American saloonkeeper, boat captain, politician, gambler, and storyteller in Key West, Florida. He was a well-known personality in the city and has been called ""arguably the city's most beloved resident"" and ""the conscience of Key West."" Anthony Tarracino was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to a bootlegger father. He dropped out of the ninth grade to make and sell whiskey, illegal at the time due to Prohibition. After becoming a gambler, getting involved with the New Jersey Mafia, and being beaten and left"
"book) and Plimpton's friend José Torres (who recounted an anecdote he'd shared at Elaine's, about conquering his fear the first time he faced a white man in the boxing ring). Until its closing, Elaine's was a frequent dinner spot in the Stuart Woods's novel series featuring Stone Barrington, wherein during that time the author always began the first paragraph with ""Elaine's. Late"". In the Hulu Original Show, The Looming Tower, one of the main characters, Special Agent John O'Neill, (played by Jeff Daniels) frequents the restaurant and is well known by Elaine. In 2003, New York City banned smoking in"
"influence his writing. Many of London's evenings were spent at Heinold's pub, gathering ideas for his later works. In his autobiographical novel, ""John Barleycorn,"" London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times. The pub was the place where London met Alexander McLean, a captain known for his cruelty at sea, whom the protagonist in London's novel ""The Sea-Wolf"", Wolf Larsen, is based. ""Jack London's Rendezvous"" became the bar's nickname in more recent years because of its influence on the author. A sign was added to the original roof with the title. John Heinold ran the bar until 1939 when his son,"
"that Watson considered ill-advised. Feeling that the influx of outsiders, primarily from California, was ruining the city, Watson often published tongue-in-cheek columns suggesting ways to make visitors to Seattle feel unwelcome. He also invented a fictional organization called Keep the Bastards Out (KBO) that fought against the influx of newcomers to the Puget Sound area from out of state. Watson received international notoriety in 1961 when he broke the story of novelist Ernest Hemingway's suicide in Idaho, which had initially been incorrectly reported by Hemingway's wife as an accidental shooting. Watson and long-time friend U.S. District Judge Bill Dwyer were"