Interviews 50 Cents

Uptown, Downtown, Out of Town

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Alex Chadwick: You get a lot of drunks in this town, don't you?

Timothy Rolewicz: Sure. It's a party town. We get a lot of people who kind of run away from life. They just can't handle it.

When a bunch of police officers go to one of their friends' house and have a party, they can maybe get a little drunk and be a little silly, or, if they went out in public or something, they'd hear about it. You know, it wouldn't be good.



Melvin Richards : This place, Juneau Wharf, is a living room for people who have dropped out of what's north of us. You know, when I left home, as it were, and my ex said to me, "Where are you going to go?" I said, "I hadn't thought about that." At the time we were living in Maine. And I thought for a moment, and I said, "I think Key West this time." She said, "They deserve you, asshole."

Alex Chadwick: (laughs)

Melvin Richards: But we're good friends - you must understand that, we're grand friends.




Pat Timmons: I work here as a bartender. It's a standard work bar. I opened up as the original morning bartender. They used to open at noon. I started to open it up at 8:00 ...

Alex Chadwick: Eight in the morning?

Pat Timmons: -- in the morning.

Alex Chadwick: Did you serve beer to people?

Pat Timmons: Oh yeah.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah?

Pat Timmons: We have coffee up until 10:00, and then we put the coffee pot away, and then it's Bloody Marys, Mimosas.

Alex Chadwick: And beer.

Pat Timmons: Beer. Liquor. Whatever.

Alex Chadwick: It's not yet 11:00 in the morning, and ...

Mr: I've had six already. (laughs) I don't know who put the time limit on when you're supposed to start drinking beer, but they didn't come from here. People here start ... there's some places open 24 hours.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah.

Pat Timmons: But you can't serve from 4:00 in the morning until 7:00.

Alex Chadwick: Really?

Pat Timmons : You have to close for three hours. Somebody's got to sweep up.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah. Do people ever worry about a drinking problem here?

Pat Timmons: We've got no problem. (laughs) You drink. You fall down. You get back up. There's 217 bars in this town.

Alex Chadwick: Really?

Pat Timmons: If you aren't an alcoholic when you come here, you will be when you leave.

Alex Chadwick: Well, don't you worry about anything, like, you know, what about the future?

Pat Timmons : (Laughing) -- what -- what ...


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