Dingo Bar
A legendary all-night bar and haunt of 1920s expatriate writers.
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The Dingo American Bar and Restaurant, most often called the Dingo Bar, opened its doors in 1923 at 10 rue Delambre in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris. It was one of the very few drinking spots in the city that stayed open all night, which made it a natural magnet for the English-speaking artists and writers who flocked to Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The bar became their favorite haunt, a place where late-night conversations and creative friendships were forged.
Quick Facts
- Address
- 10 rue Delambre, Montparnasse Quarter, Paris
- Opened
- 1923
- Notable patrons
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Pablo Picasso
- Aleister Crowley
- Nancy Cu
- Barman
- James 'Jimmie' Charters, former English lightweight boxer from Liverpool
- Current occupant
- L'Auberge de Venise, an Italian restaurant
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Background
Ernest Hemingway recorded in his book A Moveable Feast that he first met F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Dingo Bar in late April 1925, just two weeks after Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was published. The bar also drew Pablo Picasso, Aleister Crowley, Nancy Cunard, and Isadora Duncan, who would walk over from her apartment across the street.
The man behind the counter was James "Jimmie" Charters, a former English lightweight boxer from Liverpool, whose popularity as barman was a major reason for the bar's success. Charters' memoir, "This Must Be the Place; Memoirs of Montparnasse," edited by Morrill Cody with an introduction by Hemingway, came out in 1934, was republished in 1937, and again in 1989. The original building still stands, but today it houses L'Auberge de Venise, an Italian restaurant.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Dingo Bar (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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