My Watering Hole

02Oct09

It was our very own Cheers. A place I felt at home. It’s Lamascos and it will never be the same. It’s been sold.

For six years, we’ve met at Lamascos to celebrate graduations, birthdays, engagements, new babies, marriages, and promotions.  More than that, we gathered to celebrate being young and alive.

Most Fridays, and some Saturdays, you could find Nick and I there, hanging out with some of our favorite people.

I started going to the bar when I was 21 but really didn’t become “a regular” until I was 23. The main attraction was karaoke. Something Nick and I mastered very early in our relationship. More than that, it was a chance to enjoy the types of people a west side karaoke bar brings out.

We’d laugh, sing, split pitchers and enjoy some of the best pizza in the Tri-State.

The bar being sold is kinda perfect and poetic in a way. One-by-one we are all settling down. I think we just expected our bar to be there, just as it was, when we came out for the occasional play night.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not old but I am a little too old to start over with a bar, to really put the time in to become a regular.

In the early days I was only partially employed and down for week nights out on the reg. Nowadays, it takes some serious event to get me out on a school night. I am sad to see Lamascos change hands but I am happy to know that I was a big part of making it great.

Thanks for the memories…

Stef, Tiff, Jamie, Nick

Rachel

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