SAVANNAH — The bar rules posted at the Original Pinkie Masters are strictly enforced.
No credit. No smoking. No standing on the bar.
Pinkie’s, an iconic watering hole in the downtown historic district, is cash only and burning a heater inside a business is against the law in Savannah. As for the third no-no, there is one exception.
Jimmy Carter is allowed on the counter.
Carter made Pinkie Masters quietly famous in 1978 when as president of the United States he hopped atop the bar to deliver a speech. A plaque marks the spot where Carter, a proud teetotaler, climbed onto the perch, raised a Pabst Blue Ribbon and eulogized the tavern’s namesake, a friend who’d died months earlier.