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Dirty Jim's : the history 
 Opened by an American soldier in an old rum distilery located i Port of Spain,the capital of Trinidad, Dirty Jim's was once a legendary post-war club. Rumour has it that the nightclub was in fact a wedding gift from the soldier's father-law,one of the island's largest rum distillers, who seized the occasion to kill two birds with one stone, marrying off his daughter to a yankee and getting rid of his unsold stock.
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« Swizzle » is a small stick with a wooden star at is end, and is traditionally used to make calaloo soup . At Dirty Jim's, the stick found a new role and was used to crush the chunks of fruit mixed into the coktails.
A raunchy but chic nightspot. Dirty Jim's was the first club in Trinidad frequented by both black and white people.It was the place to be for everybod, men and women alike : sailors on shore leave,cruise ship tourists and wealthy islanders,bad boys and loose women.
 People went there to listen to top-ranking Calypsonians while ogling the limbo dancers and th strip-tease shows, invariably sipping on one the « Swizzle »
coktails that made the club famous.
Today, Dirty Jim's is no longer standing. It is gone, alas without a trace. Most of the people who once made the place famous are no longer with us... Fifty years after Dirty Jim's heyday, memories of the joint knock around like old ghosts,the truth often indistinguishable from the myth,fact and the fiction interwined.all that remains are a few faded photographs,some distant memories and,above all,a name,the ultimate trace of bygone era: Age of Calypso..
Making-of pictures
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