Wild fuckin Bill

[thrillingdetectivetales]

I totally forgot to post this here but, while wandering in a haze of frozen daiquiri drunkenness along the river walk in Savannah, my family stumbled upon a “Hall of Heroes” exhibit at a place called Kevin Barry’s Pub across the street from a WWII memorial, and we wandered upstairs to take a look at it. There was a pretty robust collection of war memorabilia and photos from WWII-present but I just about lost my shit when I saw a signed photograph of none other than our very own Wild Bill Guarnere up on the wall! Look at this delightful little nerd, and the swoopy lovely handwriting!! I am not ashamed to say that I made a DEEPLY embarrassing noise when I saw it and was super unsubtle about taking this picture:

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[muccamukk]

So he'd seriously been in that pub and signed a thing? That's so cool! <3 <3 <3

[thrillingdetectivetales]

I think so!!! Like I didn’t have the wherewithal at the time to go up to anyone and demand, “ARE YOU TELLING ME THE ACTUAL REAL BILL GUARNERE STOOD IN THIS PLACE AND PROBABLY HAD A DRINK” but boy howdy I thought about it. And the handwriting matches up to other autographs I saw when I searched it so at the VERY least he autographed it for real, though I can’t imagine why he would’ve dedicated it to Kevin Barry’s Pub if he weren’t in the actual pub. There’s a pretty prominent WWII memorial across the street that was built in 2010 and Bill passed in 2014 so it’s entirely possible he could have swung by on a trip or something, idk. EITHER WAY it was v v cool.

[muccamukk]

I guess the next question is, do you think he was ALSO there in the 1940s? It's not unreasonable with all the bopping around Georgia they did. How old is the pub?

*looks it up*

1980. So probably not.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Look now you’ve got me thinking about the Toccoa boys tooling around Savannah and I do not NEED that in conjunction with the five years I lived here and the note from Coming Out Under Fire about the bar at the De Soto hotel being a gay pickup spot.

[muccamukk]

I need to read that again.

[slightlytookish]

This is just so fun. It makes you wonder what other Easy Co-related things are hidden around the country.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Right? It would be fun to put together a like, Easy Co. scavenger hunt but it would require SO MUCH EFFORT and I do not need another long-term project, lol.