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Whenever we here at Crossfade happen to be awake at 4 a.m. on Monday morning, we slip on a pair of smashed sunglasses, flag a cab, and go grab breakfast — you know, a couple of shots and a nice cold beer — at Mac’s Club Deuce.
It’s one of America’s most badass booze traps — even Playboy has acknowledged it. And yesterday, Deuce founder Mac Klein turned 97 years old.
Crossfade’s buddy — photographer Liam Crotty — hit the dive for Mac’s birthday bash and brought back a whole stack of party pics.
“[Mac] told me he opened the Deuce in 1964,” Liam writes in a blog post on his website, “and that he had always been in the bar business, first as a bartender and then he owned a place in South Miami for a few years and then another bar on Alton before opening the Deuce.”
“And the secret to his longevity? [Mac] said, ‘Find something you like to do and something you’re good at, and never stop doing it. Me? I like running a bar and I’m good at it. So, this isn’t work for me.'”
“When I asked what his long-term plans were, [Mac] added, ‘To run the Deuce.’ When I asked him what he did to stay so youthful, [Mac] said he gave up drinking and smoking … When he turned 90.”
Visit liamcrotty.com to check out the rest of Liam Crotty’s party pics from Mac Klein’s birthday bash at the Deuce.
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