![]() Maybe that was his last act of machismo.īesides Hemingway, Pete’s is famous as the oldest bar in Duval County. He was as macho as a man could be until he put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger in 1961. For Hemingway, how much you could drink was about your manliness-as was seemingly everything else for the writer who ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted lions at Kilimanjaro, and awarded Fidel Castro a fishing award in Cuba. Hemingway wouldn’t have minded.Ī metal sign screwed into the wall shows a drunken cartoon Hemingway and says, “The Hemingway Years Spent Here 1933 1937.” A framed and blown-up photograph from the 1950s is captioned, “Ernest Hemingway and Beach Girls.” The anonymous “beach girls” look pretty bleary-eyed, but Hemingway’s eyes look like portals to a scrambled brain.Įven if Hemingway didn’t really invent the Mojito or the Bloody Mary, he’s the classic example of the alcoholic writer. But Pete’s Bar has the photos to prove it, even if guys with neck tattoos playing pool couldn’t tell you who Hemingway was or what he wrote. ![]() Sometimes it seems that every bar of a certain age claims Ernest Hemingway drank there.
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