Flick's Tap made it into Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash. As the reader meets Shepherd, the narrator, he is visiting his hometown, and is on his way to meet his childhood sidekick Flick. Shepherd is riding in a cab, something he routinely does in New York City, but never in the Region. When the cabby asks if he's from out of town, he responds that he is. This pretense announces his reticence about being back in the Region. Looking out the cab window, Shepherd sees - the grimy streets lined with dirty, hard ice and crusted drifts covered with that old familiar layer of blast-furnace dust. . . For the full article see the link below