WHITE HORSE TAVERN
Bar — New York, New York
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/white-horse-tavern-new-york-new-york/

The 1880 West Village bar where Dylan Thomas drank his last.

White Horse Tavern is a bar in New York, New York. The 1880 West Village bar where Dylan Thomas drank his last. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Dylan Thomas. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still pours.

White Horse is the last — the '18 shots' that's the Thomas drank, the 'sidewalk fell' that's the coma began. The 'longshoremen's' is the was — the '1880' that's the working bar, the 'piers fed' that's the dock workers. The 'literary took' is the '50s — the 'Baldwin Mailer' that's the regulars made, the 'Kerouac ejected' that's the stall carved.
The 'portrait hangs' is the kept — the 'penetrating stare' that's the Thomas watched, the 'corner table' that's the ghost's seat. The 'GO HOME' is the marked — the 'bathroom carved' that's the Kerouac's ban, the 'too drunk' that's the regular's limit. White Horse is the held — the 'bohemian' that's the Village's bar, the 'writers' shrine' that's the tourists' stop.
The file keeps White Horse: the last shots, the carved warning, the portrait's stare, and the held bar.
White Horse Tavern is the archive's New York file — the bar that outlived its poets.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
White Horse is the archive's New York file — where Thomas drank his last and Kerouac got banned.
A bar keeps its ghosts — the file's suggestion being that White Horse's hold is the literary: the '18 shots' that's the fatal count, the 'GO HOME carved' that's the ban marked, and the 'portrait stares' that's the poet kept.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: Thomas is said to occupy the table he favored. The figure answers to Dylan Thomas in the retellings. White Horse Tavern, a bar in New York, New York, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. 'White Horse Tavern' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: White Horse Tavern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Tavern_(New_York_City))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The 1953 Thomas visit is documented tradition. An old bar with its history on record gives the dossier a verified foundation. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'White Horse Tavern' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. The claim holds its place in the ledger.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· White Horse Tavern — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Tavern_(New_York_City)

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