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Hunter S. Thompson's Louisville
1937
Cherokee Triangle, Louisville, Kentucky
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He grew up in the Highlands, was jailed the night before his high-school class graduated without him, and left for the Air Force, but came home in 1970 to write the piece that started everything he did after, on the Derby, its crowd, and the particular Kentucky face he was looking for in it. The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved invented, more or less, the gonzo method by finding he could not report the race straight.
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