Louisville Magazine

MAR 2013

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Winter & Barret Avenues cross ROADS Like ocean ridges and mountain ranges tell the story of plate tectonics, so too do unmatching street grids ��� and oftentimes the placement of nearby cemeteries ��� tell the story on a map of a city���s annexation history. Such a confguration collision occurs where the southwest-to-northeast streets of the Original Highlands (and north of that neighborhood, Irish Hill and Butchertown) meet the eastwest downtown grid, whose easternmost reach is the Germantown elbow of Kentucky Street. I like to think of the gateway from grid to grid as the intersection of Winter and Barret avenues, where the Highlands ends and Germantown begins. Te directional switch isn���t instant; about 150 yards up the road you the interview micro- With the Irish Rover���s Michael Reidy hit the elbows: St. Catherine, Mary, Oak. Te new grid you enter at that point extends all the way to Chickasaw Park, as west Louisville additions to the city kept the pre-1800 grid pattern. But here, with the Monkey Wrench on one side of Winter and Barret Liquors on the other, is the dividing line between the frst eastern suburbs, circa 1854, and the old city, last remapped in 1836, when the southern border dropped from Broadway to Kentucky Street. St. Louis Cemetery, one block over of Rufer Avenue, was plotted outside the city boundary then, and wouldn���t be brought into the ofcial fold for 41 more years, when other Highlands neighborhoods were annexed. Reidy is from Kilmihil, in County Clare, Ireland. ���Population 250, on a wet day,��� he says. How did Reidy get to Louisville? ���I always wanted to travel to Australia but I came to New York to visit family mrst in 1984,��� he says. ���I met my wife at a bar there and never made it to living in Australia.��� They moved to Louisville on June 16, 1987, and opened the pub in 1993 (there���s now the Irish Rover Too in La Grange). The original Rover, on Frankfort Avenue, will celebrate St. Paddy���s Day with its annual tent party, which will include bands playing traditional Irish music and a performance by the McClanahan School of Irish Dance. Beer, too. Is St. Patrick���s celebrated in Ireland as it is here in the States? ���St. Patrick���s Day was originally celebrated in Ireland as a religious feast holiday, with parades in the large cities such as Dublin and Galloway. The population of Ireland is 4 million; the United States has 314 million. It���s a much bigger party here.��� In Ireland, are there many drunken antics on the holiday? ���The holiday itself has become a larger event as tourism has become more important. But the drunken antics have been contained. Drinking and driving laws in Ireland are among the strictest in Europe.��� Would you say St. Patrick���s Day has become Americanized? ���The largest celebration for St. Patrick���s Day in the world is actually held in Savannah, Ga.��� ��� Tabitha Hernandez Tirty years ago, Hasenour���s Restaurant lorded over the intersection ��� the supreme place for cocktails and that supper-club approach to dining out. Barret Liquors, they tell me, was a service station then. Te Monkey Wrench? Somebody���s gotta help me out on this one; I only go back to the dry cleaner. It���s a great corner, with the Fish House right there too, and the longstanding Barret Bar next to the Carter & Anderson car lot, and of course Hunter Tompson painted on the back wall of the Wrench. Te Highlands and Germantown ��� can you think of a hipper border crossing? ��� Jack Welch micro poll Will U of L make the Final Four? On U of L���s campus in February, just a few days after the Cards��� loss in the marathon that was mve overtimes against Notre Dame, we asked 40 folks this question. 30 YES 6 NOT 4 NO SURE ���Defense wins championships.��� ��� DeJon Day ���Got faith.��� ��� Gaelan Genoud 3.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 1 5

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