What do polar bears and Ruby's Bar have in common? Join The happy Hour Guys to find out! Tradition and old New York are on offer as we welcome the New Year. Jimmy volunteered to take part next year. (Jimmy's note: WTF??????) Now that's good TV! Cheers! And Happy New Year!
Video #48: Farewell P&G Cafe'.
The Guys make their way to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to say goodbye to a gem of a bar, family owned since 1942. Rising rents are forcing the P&G to move uptown. Will their patrons follow? We can only hope so. But in the process, the owners will have to take down the oldest neon sign in New York City. Join us for yet another goodbye.
Fair winds and following seas.
Video #45: Tuthilltown Distillery! (& Climber's Ranch?)
The Guys make their way into the Hudson Valley, to the first whiskey distillery in the State of New York since before prohibition. Wow, this stuff is good. Add in the beautiful scenery and a slew of fine spirits, and you've got one incredible combination. Viva la... End of Prohibition!! Cheers!
Video #40: The Coney Island Freak Bar.
The Guys make another stop at Coney Island, and the Sideshow Bar, part of the Coney Island USA complex! Check them out at coneyisland.com, and Cheers!
Video #39: Bailout Buys!
As the economy continues to tank, cheap drinks and Happy Hour specials become more and more important. The Happy Hour Guys to the rescue!! Join Mark and Jimmy as they report on 3 quick deals in Manhattan. Cheers!
Video #37: The Yankee Tavern (and Stan's!)
Jimmy and Mark head up to the Bronx, the day after baseball leaves NYC for '08, and make their way around two hallowed Yankee drinking establishments. Now if only there were playoffs happening. Cheers!
Video #35: Ruby's Coney Island.
The Happy Hour Guys stop by Coney Island and Ruby's Old Time Bar and Grill, right on the boardwalk facing the beach. On an afternoon in early September, everything seems too quiet. Or is it?
"Said to have housed an under-the-boardwalk cabaret before it became the Hebrew National Deli in 1934, this cavernous space overlooking the Atlantic was purchased in 1975 by the late, beloved Rubin Jacobs. Jacobs, who once sold knishes on the beach as a kid, eventually went on to own the neighborhoods last four bathhouses. His photographs of old Coney Island, and of the bar's motley assortment of habitués, still coat the wall behind the gruff porters, some of whom have spent half a century filling plastic cups through skinhead brawls and pirate-and-mermaid weddings. While tourists and hipsters visiting Coney Island for the day prefer to eat their short-order grub at plastic seats overlooking the boardwalk, the octogenarian regulars opt to sing along to Sinatra and Perry Como at the 45-foot-long bar. Like them, Ruby's doesn't have long in this world as a glitzy redevelopment plan may air out the bathrooms once and for all."
- blurb courtesy of wwwNYMag.com