Re: bars in st. pete

On Saturday, March 27, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Beatkiddo wrote:
> Living here in the sunshine state, and also being admirier or Kerouac's
> works, there may be truth to your friendsw statements. He took that final
> "road trip" at his home in St. Pete. He lived a block off of Central Ave,
> up by 50th St. The house still being lived in, though I am sure by someon=
e
> other than family. Kerouac's phone is still listed by GTE, and has been
> taken out of service by his family so that the memory stays. I do know fo=
r
> certain that he frequented Sulpher Springs in Tampa, which is a run-down
> section off Nebraska Ave. I have been by the house he rented out on the
> springs. Rambling to the end, what bar was it that you were taken to?
>=20
> Mujah Tusk <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Howdy folks,
> > I'm visiting family and friends here in a burb near St. Petersburg,
> > Florida, where somekind of crazy basketball thing is going on. So my bu=
ddy
> > takes my out for a few beers in downtown St. Pete when we says he's got
> > somewhere he has got to show me. He's a Kerouac/Beat fan, (well, as for
> me, I'm
> > in a Hemingway mode) and we both have a great time discussing the Class=
ics
> > (we've both been dharma bums in our own peculiar ways. Anyway, he takes=
 me
> to
> > this place simply called The Pub. He says the locals claim Kerouac used=
 to
> > drink there and that there are some who still frequent place who claim =
to
> have
> > had a few with him. Its a small out of the way place and has nothing in=
 it
> to
> > suggest such a history....
> > Now, don't get me wrong. I don't normally question my bud, but is he
> right
> > about this? Or did he hear wrong?
> >
> > Billy

https://patch.com/florida/gulfport/kerouac-st-petersburg-good-place-come-di=
e

"The reason this correction is important is because the real Cactus Bar was=
 (and still is) located in a black neighborhood and it was involved in the =
1968 Race riots in St. Petersburg that followed the assassination of Dr. Ma=
rtin Luther King on April 4, 1968 (see photo). Unfortunately, it is no long=
er a bar but the building still stands at 1844 18th Avenue South in St Pete=
rsburg. In that time frame of 1968/1969, Jack Kerouac was working on what b=
ecame his last novel "Pic" about a young African American boy and the racia=
l difficulties that he experiences. Published posthumously, Kerouac wrote "=
Pic" in a voice that is stereotypically black. The rest of the story is tha=
t a year after the riots of 1968, Kerouac was drinking at the Cactus Bar an=
d slipped in to his character Pic's African American dialect. Unfortunately=
, the brothers at the bar thought that he was mocking them which led to the=
 brutal beating..."