2016-09-30T19:13:25Z

Frederic Barry:

This page contains information about newspapers, magazines, and book chapters that are about or reference the work of Earle Bowden. When possible, we've digitized the work and have made it available for you to download in PDF format.

== Digitized Magazine and Newspaper Articles ==
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/6/6a/News_Journal_December_1985.pdf Bowden cited at UWF graduation (''Pensacola News Journal'', December 22, 1985)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/7/78/Cartoonist_PROfiles_September_1990.pdf An Editor as His Own Cartoonist (''Cartoonist PROfiles'', September 1990)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/8/83/Pensacola_Magazine_September_1992.pdf Faces I Have Drawn (''Pensacola Magazine'', September 1992)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/a/ab/News_Journal_October_3_1993.pdf Editor marks 40 years at paper (''Pensacola News Journal'', October 3, 1993)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/5/52/News_Journal_March_1996.pdf 30 years and millions of words later... (''Pensacola News Journal'', March 17, 1996)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/1/1f/News_Journal_October_12_2013.pdf Bowden's legacy celebrated (''Pensacola News Journal'', October 12, 2013)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/d/d2/News_Journal_October_25_2013.pdf Bowden: Cartoons tell all about town (''Pensacola News Journal'', October 25, 2013)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/3/35/News_Journal_Online_September_18_2014.pdf The World According to Bowden: editorial cartoons by J Earle Bowden (''Pensacola News Journal'', September 18, 2014)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/4/4f/WUWF_September_18_2014.pdf Bowden Editorial Cartoons Displayed (''WUWF.org Website'', September 18, 2014)] - ([http://video.lib.uwf.edu/Bowden/WUWF_Interview_Sept_2014/ Audio Available Here])
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/3/35/News_Journal_Online_February_15_2015.pdf Wernicke shares memories of J. Earle Bowden (''Pensacola News Journal Website'', February 15, 2015)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/2/2e/News_Journal_Online_February_16_2015.pdf J. Earle Bowden was one of the greatest Pensacolians (''Pensacola News Journal Website'', February 16, 2015)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/4/42/News_Journal_Online_February_16_2015_2.pdf Former colleagues, friends share memories of J. Earle Bowden (''Pensacola News Journal Website'', February 16, 2015)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/e/e7/News_Journal_Online_February_17_2015_2.pdf Moon: Seashore perhaps Bowden's greatest legacy (''Pensacola News Journal Website'', February 17, 2015)]
* [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/1/1c/Florida_Newspaper_Hall_Of_Fame.pdf Bowden Inducted To Florida Press Association Newspaper Hall Of Fame]

== Chapters In A Published Book ==
Note: These titles are available in the University Archives department located within the John C. Pace Library at the University of West Florida.
* '''Book Title: ''' Orange journalism : voices from Florida newspapers '''Author: ''' Julian M. Pleasants; foreword by Gary R. Mormino '''Published: ''' Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2003. '''Bowden Reference: '''Chapter 6, pages 125 - 149. '''Summary: ''' The author interviewed Earle Bowden about his work on May 20, 2000. '''NOTE: [http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/images/0/08/Oral_History_Interview_With_Julien_Pleasants.pdf You can download the transcript of the original oral history interview for this work here.]'''

* '''Book Title: ''' Florida's editorial cartoonists : a collection of editorial art with commentary '''Author: ''' S. L. Harrison; foreword by Pat Oliphant '''Published: ''' Sarasota, FL : Pineapple Press, 1996. '''Bowden Reference: '''Chapter on "Earle Bowden", pages 42 - 49. '''Summary: ''' This chapter talks about Earle Bowden's work and features 12 of his cartoons from 1994.

File:Florida Newspaper Hall Of Fame.pdf

2016-09-30T19:11:38Z

Frederic Barry:

Bowden Cartoons In McGuire's Irish Politicians Club

2016-05-25T20:22:05Z

Frederic Barry: /* Gallery of Recently-Digitized IPC Cartoons */

Earle Bowden was a member of McGuire's Irish Politicians Club. The walls of these private rooms within the McGuire's building are almost exclusively decorated with framed Bowden cartoons.

Staff from the John C. Pace library were granted special access to the room starting in March of 2016 for the purposes of digitizing this unique collection.

== Special Thanks ==
We extend our special thanks to the following individuals for making this project possible:
* McGuire Martin for his understanding of the importance of this project to UWF and for providing us with his permission to scan the framed drawings.
* Perry Hunter for facilitating our access to the Irish Politicians Club.
* Jim Reeves for helping UWF libraries initiate this project.
* UWF President Judy Bense for leading the way for UWF libraries to work with McGuire's Irish Pub.

== Gallery of Recently-Digitized IPC Cartoons ==
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[http://archives.uwf.edu/Bowden/index.php?title=Category:IPC Click here to see ALL of the cartoons we've digitized in the IPC to date.]

== History of the Irish Politicians Club ==
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'''The text below was originally published as an article titled "The Seat of Power: McGuire’s Irish Politicians Club" in''' '''''inweekly''''' '''on April 30, 2014. The original can be found at this URL: [http://inweekly.net/wordpress/?p=19019 http://inweekly.net/wordpress/?p=19019]. It is republished here with permission from the author Rick Outzen.'''

When McGuire and Molly Martin moved their popular Irish pub from Town & Country Plaza to Gregory Street in 1982, McGuire wanted to thank attorney Jim Reeves for all his support. He asked Reeves how could he return the favor.

“All I want is a four-top table to call my own,” Reeves told his friend. Why? “I told McGuire when you’re a politician, it takes you a half an hour to go a hundred yards, and you don’t want to be waiting in line to be seated.”

Few know Pensacola politics better than Reeves. The real estate attorney and developer served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972 and on the Pensacola City Council from 1977 to 1983. He is currently the chairman of the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Directors.

When the Gregory Street location was ready to open, Martin showed Reeves his table in the corner in a room off from the main dining area. He could hold his power lunches and come and go through the kitchen.

Reeves recently met with the Independent News at the table in a private dining room that was built around it. That room is now home to the famous, and at times infamous, Irish Politicians Club.

While Reeves wanted just a table at the new McGuire’s Irish Pub, his friend and advertising guru Cooper Yates had a bigger vision.

Cooper was an idealist, according to Reeves. As he tells the story, Cooper said, “Aw, man, we need to make this the Irish Politicians Club. We’ll have trips to Ireland. We’ll have golf tournaments. We’re going to charge $40 a month (which was what the Executive Club was charging at the time).”

Reeves replied, “Bullshit, we’re going to charge them $12 a month and it was just going to be like the Marine Corps. We’re not to promise them shit but this private room.”

The IPC, as it later became known, ended up being a combination of the grandiose plans of Cooper Yates and Reeve’s simpler Marine Corp approach.

“We ended up with 60 members and four tables in a room where you could hear what everybody was saying,” Reeves said.

Twenty-two years later, Reeves still has his table for lunch. He still can come through the back of the restaurant. The four tables have been replaced with semi-private booths.

“This is strictly patterned after the old Silver Slipper in Tallahassee,” Reeves said. The “Slipper” was a famous restaurant in the state capital where lobbyists picked up the tab for lawmakers and political deals were hatched in curtained rooms. After 71 years, it closed in 2009, a victim of the state’s tighter ethics laws.

Reeves clarified his tale to make sure that the reporter didn’t link the IPC to the Silver Slippers’ demise. “The idea was to copy the layout,” he said. “But this is strictly a social club.”
He was also quick to point out the financial commitment that Martin has made to the IPC. The seats in the club area would be much more valuable if they were in the open dining area, which is why there are no IPCs at his restaurants in Destin or Pensacola Beach.

Pointing to a chair across from his table, Reeves explained, “That seat, if it were out in the pub, would produce $27,000 a year. Inside here, that chair produces $7,000 annually, including the dues, which is now set at $20 per month.”

Membership applications are usually considered twice a year. “The way it works is somebody has to ask to be in,” Reeves said. “We used to have blackballs, which is the reason we have troubles these days, but we don’t have them any more.”

He added with a chuckle, “This is strictly for fun. We have foreigners. We have felons. We don’t discriminate based on any criteria, except if you don’t pay.”

The charter masters, who serve as the IPC executive and membership committee, review all the applications and make the final decision as to who will be accepted. The charter masters are Martin, Reeves, Tommy Tait, Charles Carlan, Barry Beroset, Jim Cronley, David Peaden and Autumn Beck. Peaden and Beck are the newest additions to the charter masters.

Peaden has served as the executive director of the Home Builders Association of West Florida for the past 13 years. He is active in Rotary and serves on the boards of Rebuild Northwest Florida, United Way of Escambia County and Gulf Coast Kids House Child Advocacy Center.

Beck is an attorney with McDonald Fleming Moorhead. Prior to moving back to Pensacola, she served as Political Action Committee Director and Legislative Counsel for the Florida Chamber of Commerce, where she was a lobbyist before the Florida Legislature on business-related issues. She is serves on the Board of Trustees for the Pensacola Little Theater and is a Ballet Pensacola Guild member.

“We’ve never had a female charter master,” Reeves said. He said the two young professionals will help to build the second generation of the IPC and help it survive beyond Reeves and Martin.

However until that day, Reeves can be found at noon every weekday holding court at his seat of power at his reserved table in the IPC.

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2016-05-17T18:46:58Z

Frederic Barry:

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