Primrose Club

After Prohibition ended in 1933, E.P. “Buck” Brady, a truck driver who started working for the Cincinnati bootleg king, George Remus, purchased the building at 44 Licking Pike in Wilder, KY, turning it into a tavern and gambling facility. The joint was originally called the Blue Grass Inn, then the Primrose Club. In 1946, Brady decided to take on the mafia Cleveland Syndicate, who were trying to take over his club, by shooting Red Masterson, a Syndicate operative and manager of the Merchant’s Club. Brady gunned down Red outside the Merchant’s Club, but Red survived and Brady was arrested for disturbing the peace. Red did not testify and Brady was dismissed. The Syndicate gave Brady two choices: Get out of town or be killed. Brady chose to retire to Florida. The Syndicate now had control of the Primrose Club and renamed it the Latin Quarter (the large LQ is still on the tile floor today when you walk into the bar area). It was later the home to Bobby Mackey’s Music World, a country and western bar.

From a Facebook post by Chris Code