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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
86 Bedford St, Greenwich Village
Chumley's was a Prohibition-era speakeasy where Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Edna St. Vincent Millay drank. A true speakeasy to the end: entry was gained through an unmarked alley, and its matchbook said 'Chumley's' on the cover and 'you can't get here from there' on the inside. Book jackets lined the walls. A chimney collapse destroyed the original bar in 2007.
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