Like many kids who grew up going to the Redneck Riviera, I first went to the Flora-Bama when I was 6. My parents grew tired of drinking Busch on the beach in front of our condo and wanted the family to walk a mile to drink more Busch on that sprawling back porch while also slurping giant, briny Gulf oysters as a pairing. Unlike most things that are made grand in your head from an early age (renting a car, drinking shitty beer stolen from your parents), the Flora-Bama stood the test of time… even if the building itself didn’t, getting annihilated by Hurricane Ivan in ’02. While I can wax poetically about Bushwackers and the new building’s seemingly infinite stages and rambling rooms and all its other ramshackle charms, the aftermath of Ivan was the quiet example of the state-line-straddling dive’s legacy: it only stopped serving for a few weeks, because when a community has been ravaged, parents and 6-year-olds and bikers and locals need their ramshackle home to wander to off of the beach. — Liz Childers, senior cities director

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