Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years, an astounding feat for a non-musical and, as of 2014, it was still the 18th longest-running Broadway show in history as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. The novel ultimately argues for the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites, as the author's father, Ira Caldwell, had argued in his 1930 article in "The Eugenics Review". A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by
Tobacco Road (bar) could remain open for at least that long before the lot is developed. In 2014, the owners announced that they were planning on selling the bar to its employees, regardless of whether or not demolition is imminent, and relocating to another building nearby. The bar closed on the morning of October 26 with plans to relocate to another building in the same block as well as a themed bar on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. In October 2015, the Norwegian Escape began service from PortMiami, with the ship including a bar named "Tobacco Road", which has been "reimagined as a