First, 3rd Street is located well outside of Radcliff proper (it's so far south, it's almost in E-Town), and secondly there aren't any bars in Radcliff, aside from the one in Applebees. Radcliff is a moist town, in that only restaurants can sell liquor (at least until January, when stores can start selling beer and packaged liquor).
I don’t know anything about Radcliff KY, but in his defense, I often move geographical locations around to steamline the prose. When I do so, I normally change the names as well. Much more glaring to me was the entire 2,000 mile horse ride from Belize across Mexico to northern New Mexico. We’re told the starvation is so bad that there is cannibalism, yet the hero rides his horse straight across wide open MExico, adn NOBODY snipes that ton of meat on the hoof? That was a huge part of the story, and it just made me roll my eyes.