Here's a 70's t-shirt from Cap's Place Island Restaurant and Bar - Lighthouse Point, Florida
The back says it's been there for 100 years so I did some digging.
Their website claims they're Broward County's oldest restaurant - "with roots as a 1920's casino and rum-running speakeasy, it sits on an island off Lighthouse Point and can only be reached by Cap's motor launch.
Back
in the 20's in No-Man's Land Florida, Cap Knight, Lola Knight and Al Hasis
brought together a group of wooden shacks attached to an old barge which was
floated up the present day intracoastal waterway from Miami to its location on
Cap's Island near the fabled Hillsboro lighthouse north of Fort Lauderdale.
This was a rum-running restaurant and gambling casino, nestled on an island in
the coastal marsh."
Look familiar?
"Among some of the notables who have enjoyed Cap’s creative cuisine are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Casey Stengel, George Harrison, Errol Flynn, the Temptations, Susan Hayward, Gloria Swanson, Mariah Carey, "Norm" from TV's Cheers and Joe Namath. Cap's has hosted the famous and infamous for decades."
NORM!
For this incredibly soft and thin authentic wearable piece of Florida's rum-running and gambling history, please visit -
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