Jack Kerouac used to frequent this bar as he wound down the last few years of his life in St. Petersburg, FL. Supposedly, he came here for his last night out before he died from an internal hemorrhage.

The Flamingo Bar has an ongoing Jack Kerouac special for $2.25: rot-gut whiskey and a draft beer.

The bar is decorated with Jack Kerouac memorabilia and host an annual Jack Kerouac Night with music performances and readings.

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The writer/creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars was born at this address on September 1, 1875.

The fourth son of Civil War veteran and businessman Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913) and his wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920), Edgar Rice Burroughs attended several schools in the area until he left Chicago because of the influenza epidemic for his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho.

In the ensuing years, Burroughs was a soldier in the Arizona Territory, performed ranch work, and worked for his father's firm. In 1911, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and was reading a great deal of pulp fiction. It was at this point that he decided to begin writing.

As he stated: "...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."

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Located in the city of Cross Plains, TX is the family home (and current museum) of Robert "Bob" E. Howard, author of several fantasy and adventure stories and creator of "Conan the Barbarian."

A frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine, Howard was part of "The Lovecraft Circle", a group of fantasy writers who were influenced and encouraged through correspondence with Lovecraft.

Although Howard never had a book published in his lifetime, by the age of thirty he was consistently selling his stories to different magazines.

In 1936, upon hearing that his mother was entering a coma that she would not awake from, Howard went out to the car in the driveway of this location and shot himself in the head. He was thirty years old.

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At the bottom of San Cristobal Hill, in the Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago, is one of the three houses that the poet Pablo Neruda occupied in Chile.

In 1953, Neruda started to build a home for his secret love, Matilde Urrutia. He named the home La Chascona ("wild hair"), the same nickname he had for Urrutia because of her abundant red hair. Neruda moved in after separating from his wife in February 1955.

Neruda died on September 23rd, 1973, only days after the military coup by Pinochet. The home was vandalized, but Urrutia was determined to have the funeral in the home. She spent the night with friends in the living room surrounded by broken windows.

Urrutia lived in the home until she died in 1985. Today it's a museum and is open to the public.

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“I feel the tiredness of Santiago. I want to find in Valparaiso a little house to live and write quietly. It must have some conditions. It can’t be located to high or to low. It should be solitary but not in excess. With neighbours hopefully invisibles. They shouldn’t be seen or heard. Original, but not uncomfortable. With many wings, but strong. Neither too big or too small. Far from everything but close to the transportation. Independent, but close to the commerce. Besides it has to be very cheap. Do you think I would find a house like that in Valparaiso?- Pablo Neruda in a letter to friends, 1959.

Although his list of demands for a home was impressive, in 1959 Pablo Neruda's friends found this mansion on Florida Hill that fit the poet's desires. Neruda ultimately felt the home was too big; he split the home and sold the bottom two floors to the sculptor Marie Martner and her husband, Dr. Francisco Velasco. Neruda retained the third and fourth floor and a tower.

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