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May 12, 2001:

I enjoyed going through the list of bars in your graveyard
section.  It brought back many memories.  There are a few corrections I
have and several omissions I'd like to suggest for inclusion in the list
       ... Your listing for the Sherwood includes the Wedgewood.
It seems to indicate that these were one and the same, which was not the
case.  The Sherwood was indeed on Beach Drive and I used to frequent it
often.  I dearly remember Dave the pianist.  The Wedgewood was a
restaurant/motel complex on 4th Street South at 22nd Avenue.  There's
nothing there now except green grass.  It was the only St. Pete bar that
ever drew a huge crowd from Tampa.
       ...
       In Tampa there used to be a well-known bar in the early sixties
called Jimmy White's which later became a dyke bar called Cucujo's.
This in turn then became the Old Plantation.  Conspicuously absent from
your list are the well-known downtown bars called the Ohio and the
KiKiKi.  This latter was torn down in the seventies and replaced by the
GTE building (now Verizon).  It moved to Tampa Street, one block from
the Ohio and was known as the KiKiKi 2.  That closed and now we have the
KiKiKi 3 on Kennedy.  Two other downtown bars I had visited in the early
seventies were the Adonis and the Horny Bull.  
       For a brief period of time, a bar opened up on the Tampa side of
the Causeway in one of the motels on the south side.  This was probably
in the eighties.  I cannot remember its name.  Also, probably in the
late seventies, there was a bar on the north end of Franklin Street
downtown, a very deserted area at that time.  The name escapes me at
present.  I think of men in uniform when I recall that bar.  
       Maybe if you mention these bars and their locations, someone will
remember their names.  I hope this helps with your list.
       J.R.