The Dingo American Bar and Restaurant at 10 rue Delambre in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris

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, France

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 opened its doors in 1923. Most commonly referred to as the Dingo Bar, it was one of the few drinking establishments at the time that was open all night. It became the favorite haunt of the many English-speaking artist

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s and writer

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s who gathered in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s.

As recorded by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 in his book A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer in Europe during the 1920s with his first wife, Hadley...

, he first met F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 at the Dingo Bar in late April 1925, two weeks after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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Others who frequented the Dingo Bar included Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

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, Nancy Cunard

Nancy Cunard

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 and Isadora Duncan

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 would come over from her apartment across the street.

James "Jimmie" Charters, a former English

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 lightweight boxer

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 was the highly popular barman at the Dingo and was responsible for much of its success. In 1937, Charters published "This must be the place; memoirs of Montparnasse." The book was edited by Morrill Cody

Morrill Cody

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 with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. It was republished in 1989.

The premises that was home to the Dingo Bar remains but today is occupied by a restaurant

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