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HORN OF PLENTY: These days it's called Jay's 17th Spot. In Barfly it was The Golden Horn. Bukowski knew the place by a name lost to time.
The place had a "liveliness" Bukowski admired and became the inspiration for The Golden Horn in Barfly. "It wasn't a common bar," he would later say of the Philly haunt. "There were characters there."
There was Marie the Whore, Lily the Dopester, Frogman, Tommy the Albino, Helen the Prostitute and Frank McGillian, the stocky, square-jawed bartender who would take Bukowski into the back alley and beat him for the enjoyment of the other customers. McGillan was the model for Frank Stallone's "Eddie" in Barfly....
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2005-03-24/cityspace.shtml
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