Shady Pictures
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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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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We were flattered and honored to learn this week we were named the number one dive bar in the South by Southern Living magazine.
We know that of late, "dive bar" has become a wildly misapplied and overused appellation and, we also know that, for a few reasons some may even feel that the Green Parrot may have strayed too far from our roots to qualify.
For example, some say a true dive should never appear in print unless it is closing, or mentioned as a crime-scene.
Others say that a clean, safe, well-run joint, (which we are), without the sense that shit could get dangerously strange at any moment does not qualify.
It should also be noted as other potential disqualifiers that we no longer have a condom machine in the restroom, nor are there discarded whippits strewn about.
While we do have a pinball machine and a great jukebox, as well as having a string or two of year-round Christmas lights, all dive staples, we do understand and concede that just having them doesn’t make you a dive.
What we do understand however, and here’s where I think we do qualify, is that a dive bar is one of society’s best accidentally-created things ever and we believe it’s clear to even the most casual observer that no one could ever have planned this place.
In reality, dive bars are, put simply, neighborhood places that serve reasonably-priced simple drinks with no pretense and have no-nonsense attitudes where, to name just one example, it`s patently understood you can choose to be social, or can choose to be left alone to drink in private.
These are the places that pretty much say, “don’t F*** with anyone here and everything will be fine.” Our decor was once described as being whatever the clientele was wearing that day, and we acknowledge that our clientele is motley and changes according to the time of day.
In the words of local author Joy Williams, "The Parrot has an engagingly louche clientele, a pool table and a dart board, odd art, and an attitude best described by the sign over the booze shelves: `No Sniveling`”
#southernliving #divebars #greenparrotbar #localsbar #keywest #keywestlife #joywilliams#divebar#keywestbars #divebarlife #corner-bar
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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Cayman says he thinks it’s time to come out, so, this Wednesday, September 13th at 5:30 pm, please join @caymango and Friends for “A Lovely Cruise”, a local tribute to Jimmy Buffett, a 90-minute set of Classics at The Parrot.
#greenparrotsoundcheck #greenparrotbar
#localsbar #keywestmusic #keywestmusicians #southardandwhitehead #jimmybuffett
The Trongone Brothers and Friends continue their weekend residency with four energetic sets of road-tested rock n’roll to go at 5:30, 9:00 and 11:00 on Saturday and a 5:30 pm Sunday Soundcheck.
Joining the siblings onstage as one of the “Friends” is the formerly Denver, now Richmond-based Jonathan Meadows, who astute Parrot regulars may recall as the bassist/vocalist for The Congress, the jam-driven, classic soul and roots/rock quartet that visited us from Colorado in 2016.
The Green Parrot, Your Southernmost Center for Rock n’ Soul Culture of All Kinds,
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Amply-coiffed and talent-heavy, The Trongone Brothers and Friends brings their own larger-than-life, long-haired rock to The Green Parrot with shows at 5:30. 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.on Friday and Saturday, and 5:30 pm on Sunday.
Richmond-based, they’re a band of brothers bringing a collection of raw, road-tested rock n’roll to the Parrot faithful.
Siblings inspired by the great classic rockers, bluesmen, and guitar heroes they were raised on, they’re turning heads and making an impact on the east coast music scene with their modern take on a timeless sound.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, please join @caymango and Friends for “A Lovely Cruise”, a local tribute to Jimmy Buffett, a 90-minute set of Classics at The Parrot.
#greenparrotsoundcheck #greenparrotbar
#localsbar #keywestmusic #keywestmusicians #southardandwhitehead #jimmybuffett
Though Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes were described by no less than Rolling Stones magazine’s David Fricke as “one of New Orleans` best kept secrets", it’s safe to say that the cat has been out of the bag for some time here with Parrot patrons.
Fricke went on to say, "The band`s Jazz Fest set was a revelation...jam band bonhomie and Louisiana stroll spiced with klezmer-style violin and funeral-parade horns...it’s what you get if Phish had been born at Tipitina`s and studied under George Clinton and Frank Zappa late every night on the levee.”
Plan to be here when this six-piece, classically-trained Crescent City Funk/Rock band brings their brand of NOLA Funk and horn-heavy rock with a gypsy/klezmer flair to the Parrot stage with shows at 5:30, 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, June 9th and 10th, and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 11th.
@johnnysketchnola @greenparrot #bestlivemusicvenue #bestbar
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Our good friends John Martini and Carol Munder and the people of Boudreville celebrate Bastille Day, 2017, in their Green Parrot gear. Each year when John and Carol would return to France for the summer they would bring Green Parrot shirts and hats for the village, and here they all are, sporting their Parrot gear.
From all of us at The Green Parrot to John and Carol and our friends in Boudreville, LE PEUPLE FRANÇAIS, : LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ.
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Wow… Huge Thanks to all the fans & friends we saw over the Holiday Weekend! We just played a bunch of shows in the last 4 days, and all of YOU brought out those good vibes, thank you so much…
#bobmarley #reggae #florida #fl #floridakeys #keywest #4thofjuly #greenparrotbar #farmerstablenpb #northpalmbeach #fireworks #USA #lostboyscreations #reggaeband greenparrotbar lostboys.creations farmerstablenpb out
Key West ex-pat Jeff Clark, recently relocated to New Orleans, makes his return to the Parrot Stage with his latest incarnation, Jefff Clark and The Eleetz, fusing funk, rock, ska and reggae, and featuring first-call musician Geoff Lowe plus Pennsylvania jazz-giant Andy Roberts. Look for a spirited, high-energy Green Parrot Dance Party with sets at 5:30 and 9:00 pm tonight.
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From a recent City of Key West press release and from our own “be-careful-what-you-wish-for”Department comes the announcement that the Florida Marlins MLB team has proclaimed August 28th Key West Day.
At that Marlins-Cincinnati Reds game, Mayor Teri Johnston will throw out the first pitch and a group of Key West kids will join mascot Billy the Marlin on the field during the seventh inning stretch to sing “Take me Out to the Ballgame”.
Some of us however may recall a Marlins-Cubs game in 2011 when a Key West boat captain jumped the outfield wall, shed his clothes and streaked into Marlins baseball history.
Upon further, and closer review, too close really, it was revealed that the Marlins-Cubs streaker was not only a Key Wester but a good Parrot customer
The news account goes on to claim the nude streaker came from a crowd of 60 people from Key West who were subsequently asked to leave following the pantsless run.
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