Today is the 157th (or 149th?) birthday of McSorley's Old Ale House, the venerable establishment that the indispensable Joseph Mitchell once described as "a drowsy place; the bartenders never make a needless move, the customers nurse their mugs of ale, and the three clocks on the walls have not been in agreement for many years."
Woody Guthrie at McSorley's in 1943
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are you at all familiar with Brick Heck?
Only went there three or four times, but I still vividly recall my first time. I asked the bartender "What's on tap?" And he shook his head and said, "Light or dark, son. Light or dark."
So I said one of each. Later that night I saw Spoon for the firs time and banged out a bartender from the actual Coyote Ugly, not the fake-ass Hogs and Heifers that they based the movie on. GOOOD night in the East Village.
hmm Looks like a this might be the place for the Clan Suibhne (pronounced Sweeney) I will pass it on- Thanks!
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