PubNight #187 - Barrow's Pub

Wednesday Pub Night #187 - 8:00 pm at Barrow's Pub

Welcome...

This weeks pubnight endeavor will take place at Barrow's Pub - a long time favorite... It's a small bar with a reasonable jukebox, friendly regulars and a usable pool table - nothing really special, just nice... oh, and no food - but there are a few take out places (relatively) nearby

Place: Barrow's Pub
Address: 463 Hudson Street, New York
Phone: (212) 741-9349
At: corner of Barrow & Hudson
Time: 8:00pm (no food there, but there's always delivery)
Location info: CitySearch Description and map
Backup: Blind Tiger Ale House (518 Hudson Street, corner of West 10th & Hudson)

as always - we'll see you there
................................ Kris, Petro, & Jay

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historical events of the week:

2/28/1993 - Government Agents shoot it out with Branch-Davidian Cultists in
2/29/1904 - big band leader Jimmy Dorsey born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
2/29/1973 For the first time, researchers identify the areas of the brain where opiate drugs attach themselves to produce a high for the user. The discovery was made by Dr Solman Snyder and Mrs. Candace Pert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The research is considered a major breakthrough against heroin addiction.
2/29/1960 - An Earthquake killed 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec. Also that day, it was hit with a tidal wave and a fire.
3/1/2000 - United Kingdom: Data Protection rights for individuals will be strengthened by new legislation which goes into effect 3/1/2000 - The new legislation is designed to abide with and strengthen current EC Data Protection Laws. What does this actually mean? Well, I don't have a clue...
3/1/2000 - I heard cigarette prices go up something like 50 cents - jesus, what does a guy have to do to get a smoke around here?
3/3/1870 - in the Red River colony, Thomas Scott, a "violent and boisterous" Irishman from Ontario, was tried and convicted of taking up arms against Louis Riel's provisional government. On March 4, he was executed by a Metis firing squad. Ontario Orangemen hailed Scott as a political martyr and the execution became a principal cause for the dispatch of the Wolseley Expedition to regain control of the colony. (by the way, this is Canadian History)
3/4/1778 - Robert Emmet, one of the most famous revolutionaries in Irish history, was born in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.