Popular Coffee Shop/Bar Closed For Remodel

Fairhope, Alabama thefairhopetimes.blogspot.com 

 

505 Fairhope Avenue today.

 

2024 photo


'JOHNNY MAC'S'

The Johnny Mac's coffee shop/bar at 505 Fairhope Avenue has closed indefinitely for remodeling.

No reopening date has been set yet but a band has already been booked there for April 19th according to their websites.

HISTORY

The property was a gas station/auto repair shop for many years since he mid-1960s; it sold hemp products for several years as well until summer 2025 when new state laws went into effect prohibiting that.

The city is currently considering a new ordinance allowing a different form of hemp sales (under new state law); we understand two businesses in town have already expressed interest but do not know yet if this is one of them. 

Old Fairhope Hemp sign.



 

Comments

Anonymous said…
Great place too!
Anonymous said…
Need more THC gummies to survive in this town.
Anonymous said…
CBD shops don’t belong in our family-friendly, touristy city. It’s a trashy look (like vape shops and tattoo parlors).
Anonymous said…
Daphne has four liquor stores not counting ABCs and two CBD shops. Isn't Daphne a family-friendly touristy City?
Anonymous said…
Travel a bit. Everywhere this starts as a store or two, and then the stores proliferate, along with their dissolute subculture clientele. Fairhope should not accommodate that subculture, not because we are snobs, but because our cultures are incompatible. Live and let live, but freedom of association remains a viable doctrine in the United States of America.
Anonymous said…
alcohol's the worst drug of al!
Anonymous said…
There’s really not much for a tourist to see or do in Daphne. ‘Cept movies and stripmalls. Old Towne Daphne could use an influx of cozy shops and restaurants (not just wings and burgers).