Anthony “Tony” Tarracino, a former mayor of Key West and legendary bar owner of “Captain Tony’s Saloon” whose life was memorialized in a Jimmy Buffett song, has died, according to his wife. He was 92.
He came to Key West from New Jersey in 1948 with $18 in his pocket. Ten years later he purchased a bar on Greene Street and changed its name to Captain Tony’s Saloon.
[Jimmy]Â Buffett, a longtime friend, sang about Tarracino’s exploits in the song “Last Mango in Paris,” from the 1985 album of the same name.
(via BuffettNews)
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