Gold and black velvet wallpaper is still there, and the red and black faux leather booths have been restored.Ĭarved initials scour table tops. The long wooden bar has been refurbished.
The bar on Grand Rapids’ north side, west of the Grand River, was bought in 2008 by the Gilmore Group, which controls 21 restaurants with local roots. Activities here are legendary, of bootleg booze, a brothel. He would eventually win the Nobel Prize for works such as “The Old Man and the Sea.”Ībout the same time, Nick Fink’s was flourishing in a tannery town with five bars and a state fish hatchery. The Upper Peninsula was the backdrop to his “Nick Adams” short stories. He traveled often with his family to their summer home near Petoskey. Hemingway, the hard-drinking adventurer, lived as a child in Oak Park, Illinois. This is how local lore was picked up unchecked by a business association, became known to the bar’s restaurant-chain operator, repeated to an author, ended up in a new book - and legend was sheathed as fact. “It’s not true,” said Nick Fink IV, the last in four generations of namesakes who owned what is touted as Grand Rapids’ longest-serving bar. “Best of all it still looks like the kind of place where ‘Papa’ would enjoy holding down a bar stool,” Norma Lewis wrote in her new book, “Lost Restaurants of Grand Rapids.” He takes breaks here on travels north, observing patrons who would become characters in the great author’s writing. Write the truest sentence that you know.” - Ernest HemingwayĬomstock Park – - You can see it in your mind: Ernest Hemingway leans into a wooden bar in a pub near the railroad line passing Grand Rapids. “All you have to do is write one true sentence.
0 kommentar(er)
