Friday, July 31, 2009

Understocked

From xkcd: “Actually, it seems we’re out of beer.”

comments: 5

Unknown said...

Nick DeMaio is my great uncle. His sister is my grandmother. How I stumbled upon this link is a long story but I actually have the original Ram newspaper article about Nick written in the 80's. I also went to Fordham and Nick was well known to many of the students. In fact, I was a minor celebrity because of the connection. There are many family stories about the speakeasy days, including how they delivered their wares using the false bottom of my dad’s baby coach ( very large in those days).

Michael Leddy said...

Mich, I’m glad that you found your way to this post. If you could share a copy of the Ram article, I’d be really grateful. My e-mail address is in the blog sidebar, under the photograph.

Michael Leddy said...

Mich, I added your comment to the post where it was meant to go: Nick DeMaio and the Eldorado.

Exiled in boston said...

I am disappointed that I see no reference to Max who tended bar there in the late 60s. The bar also had a great jukebox then. It had a great selection including Hank Williams. As far as I could ever tell, the only place that actually identified the bar as the El Dorado was on the jukebox.
I have a photo from around 1975 of the front of BAR as the 3rd Ave El was being demolished but can’ t it to show up here

Michael Leddy said...

Thanks for adding to the facts collected in the El D post.

There’s no uploading images in Blogger comments, which is all for the best given the existence of spammers. If you send me your photo, I’ll be happy to add it to the El D post. My address is available from a link in the sidebar.