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Good Company 6 & 9 PM Thursday

July 16, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

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Date:: July 16, 2015
Time:: 6:00 pm

« Bill Blue Sunday 6:00 PM
Bill Blue Friday 6 PM »

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There is only one place in the world to get bona fide parrot gear! Check out the cool Key West gear available only at Green Parrot Bar.

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Sep 22

With the 29th annual Green Parrot Tradesman’s Appreciation Day on tap today, we offer a brief history of the event.

The event was conceived as a one-off nearly three decades ago, when great American sculptor John Martini, whose studio was then located in a foundry on the old Navy base just down the street from The Parrot, would frequent our saloon for a drink after long, late-night sessions creating his unique metal sculptures.

The medium Martini chose to work with, steel-plate and cast-iron, was a physically-challenging one, so he came to The Green Parrot often, to recruit the help of the able-bodied, but often elusive tradesmen known to frequent our corner.

An offshoot of his search was his creation of an 8-foot iron sculpture, inspired by the tradesman he found here, a piece entitled, "Where's Jimbo and the Other Giants of the Building Trade?" acquired, quite fittingly, and hangs in The bar today.

Unveiled with great ceremony, the sculpture featured abstract figures, one wielding a plumber's wrench, plus as carpenter, an electrician, a female painter, as well as sheet-rocker, balanced on his drywall stilts, a facsimile of what the Parrot oft represented -- a bar that has been "Keeping the Working Men and Women of Key West Lubricated Since 1890".

On that day, what seemed to begin as just another Parrot party became the first Tradesman's Appreciation Day--a day dedicated specifically to the working men and women of Key West, and including Buco and Dixie’s laminated Tradesman’s Passes, complete with name, date, Polaroid photo, and the whimsical occupation of your choice!

And, the event predated the now-nationally recognized National Tradesman Appreciation Day established nearly 2 decades later, (Irwin Tools, you’re welcome!)

Pictured in Brita Brooks’ wonderful b/w photos are some Green Parrot Tradesman that frequented that largely blue-collar Green Parrot: Peter Bernhart, Terry Rossman, Fireball Frank, Bruce Gorman aka Captain Conch, and of course, Jimbo the Plumber, now immortalized in John’s “Where’s Jimbo” sculpture.

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Jul 19

Loved this LFL attached to a restaurant in Key West when I visited a few months ago❤️ I always look around for Little Free Libraries when I’m vacationing somewhere! Do you do the same?

This account is basically just a photo diary of all the LFLs I visit 🤣
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Apr 20

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Sep 19

A reminder that on Friday, September 22nd the Green Parrot will celebrate its 29th Annual Tradesman’s Appreciation Day, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

To mark the occasion we will again issue our laminated Tradesman and Tradeswoman Passes, complete with name, photo, occupation and authorization.

Besides being a proudly coveted Parrot souvenir to let casually slip out of your wallet with your credit card, rambling Key West tradesmen and tradeswomen have also begun using the card as their go-to photo ID!
They’re free, and remember, you don't even need a job to get one.

We continue the celebration with a showing of rare archival footage from the first Tradesman’s Day.

Our celebration is about all the workers of Key West, from the cab driver to the bartender, the server, the baker, the truck driver and all those working on our island, as well as the traditional tradesmen, the carpenter, plumber, roofer and electrician.
We love you all!

Included here are few of Tony Gregory’s Tradesman’s Day card photos from the not too distant past.

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