Back in my day we were hitting the Tigers Paw, Royal Dutch, Kiki Lounge and everybody’s favorite dive....the Plush Pony. Later it was HonkyTonks and Fillies.
Best pizza place was the Sportsman’s Inn.
Loved those days. Use to cruise Lake Worth beach nearly every night with my 1973 Mach 1 looking for races. Then of course spring breaks in Ft Lauderdale were legendary! Great time to grow up in SFla.!
Oh God...the Tiger's Paw. Can you you imagine being a bouncer in that place? Back then, there was really no such thing as an assault charge for a bar fight, no one got sued, nobody went home cryin' to mama. If you squared off with a fella, the outcome was the outcome and that was that. I would argue that that place had more bar fights per square foot than any place in America at the time. And these were no ordinary bar fights. The biggest and angriest farm boys in the county would show up there, and they were just looking to leave someone bloodied and beaten. The drinking and shtty country music, were just an afterthought. Roadhouse was a tea party in comparison.
When I think of all the dangerous stuff I've done in my life - drag racing down the Lake Worth Bridge, flooring it down Alternate A1A at 135 mph with my headlamps off, diving head-first into a sinkhole in Gainesville in the middle of a moonless night without checking the water level first, etc., etc. - I count walking into that bar for the first time as a 118 lbs high-schooler wearing a polo shirt and khakis and sitting down to order a drink like I belonged there as one of them.