Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Say Goodbye to Miami's Tobacco Road



The Final Toasts at a Gritty, Beloved Miami Tavern.  (The New York Times, 10/26/2014)

Make way for more towers.
It was a saloon with a pedigree. “The best dive possible, a real classy dive,” said Terry Peters, a 60-year-old regular. The Road held the oldest active liquor license in the city. (Above the front door was this promise: “Hot & Cold Running Liquor.”) But the two-story shotgun shack that housed Tobacco Road and its predecessors for nearly a century is about to take a tumble for modernity, a fall that echoes the story of Miami.

From 1986.



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