The White Horse Tavern
Located at Hudson and 11th Streets in the West Village, The White Horse Tavern opened in 1880. At the time, it mostly served longshoremen, who worked loading and unloading goods in busy New York Harbor.
But in the 1950s, The Horse began to attract a different crowd—writers, artists, and other Bohemians. Among them was Ruthven Todd who introduced the bar to his friend Dylan Thomas. As Jack and Euri learn, Thomas reputedly died after drinking 18 whiskies at the bar (learn more about the story here).
Jack and Euri also meet several of the bars other famous patrons from this era including the African American novelist James Baldwin and the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Check out what they really looked like below.
James Baldwin Allen Ginsberg