Strat Opening Day 2019!

Better late than never, wanted to share some pictures from our recent pilgrimage to New York City and Strat-O-Matic Headquarters.

Unfortunately Hal was a little under the weather so he did not make an appearance, but his son was running the show in the luxurious headquarters building...

We walked around Glen Head and I was surprised to see this store on the downtown 'strip'.  It is called Fairy Lice Mothers, and their tagline is "Granting wishes by removing itches"!  Eeeewwww.  Probably the second biggest business in town, after Strat-O-Matic, (or the First National Bank of Long Island, which had three buildings in a 2 block radius!)

Parting is such sweet sorry, we took the Long Island Rail Road (conveniently located right by the Strat-O-Matic building) to head back to the city.

We hit three boroughs on Friday.  Started with breakfast in Queens, a stop at this great brewery in Brooklyn (Other Half Brewing Company), and then spent the rest of the day in Manhattan.  The Other Half Brewing Company lived up to the hype, filled with Brooklyn hipsters and great craft beers.   See if you can guess which of the three beers was mine!

First stop back in Manhattan was Foley's, the self-proclaimed "Irish Bar with a baseball attitude".  So much memorabilia in there that you couldn't even begin to digest it all, especially on a crowded Friday night.  

No trip to the Big Apple is complete without a quick trip to the top of the Empire State Building.

Was a great time, so glad Dave and Steve T. could go.   We are planning a return trip in 2021, when Strat-O-Matic should have all sorts of festivities for their 60th anniversary!  Hope you all can come along for that!