R.I.P., John Carlos White.
Imagine a restaurant being so well known that it refrains from including a street address in its Facebook listing. Bristol Bar & Grill’s exact whereabouts are shown at its web site: 1321 Bardstown Rd., which in Louisville-speak means the Highlands. We’ve all known this for years, right? They’re almost synonymous.
However, in terms of Louisville’s officially delineated historic neighborhoods, for almost a half-century the Bristol has been situated in Cherokee Triangle, on the north side of Bardstown Rd., facing Tyler Park on the south side, and not in the Original Highlands per se.
No one cares, and I accept this even though contrarianism always brings me great personal pleasure.
Most often the Highlands exists as a positive attribute in the popular imagination of Louisvillians, right up until it doesn’t, and during the past few years, as socio-economic shifts have occurred and arguments have raged about whether the Highlands can ever...
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