San Juan, Winter of 1958

In the early Fifties,when San Juan first became a tourist town,

an ex--jockey named .41Arbonito built a bar in the patio behindo

his house on Calle O Leary.He called it.Al s Baehyard and hung

a sign above his doorway on the stn et, wilh an arrow pointing be

tween two ramshackle buildings to the patio in back At.first he

served nothing but beet; at twenty cents a bottle, and rum, at a dime

a shot or fifteen cents with ice After several months he bagan serving

hamburgers, which he made himself.

It won a pleasant place to drink, espeeialy in the mornings when

the sun was still cool and the salt mist came up from the ocean to

give the air a crisp, healthy smell that for a few early hours would

hold its own against the steaming, sweaty heat that clamps San

Juan at noon and remains until long offer sundown.

亨特•湯普森（Hunter S. Thompson，1937-2005），美國著名記者、小說傢，“剛左”新聞教父，新新聞主義的代錶人物之一，《滾石》頭牌作傢，也是其中最傳奇的一位。一生寫作無數，包括《拉斯維加斯的怕與恨》《朗姆酒日記》《地獄天使》等等，是美國六七十年代亞文化的重要推動者，其作品中有多部被改編成電影。

2005年2月20日，亨特•湯普森在傢中吞槍自殺，根據他的遺願，由約翰尼•德普齣資250萬美元操辦，將他的骨灰放入由其自己設計的禮炮中，打嚮夜空。