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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Rewind: An Evening at Sardi's

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the exciting new theater season, we're revisiting our 2011 episode on the history of Sardi's restaurant, the Theater District institution, updated to cover the trials and triumphs of the past decade.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi listeners, Tom here from The Bowery Boys, with an encore presentation of an evening

0:07.4

at Sardis, an episode released 11 years ago, back in June 2011.

0:14.5

Now we're assuming that most of you haven't heard this episode, or if you did 11 years

0:19.5

ago, that you forgot most of it.

0:23.0

I certainly had, but it's a fun one, and it celebrates a restaurant that's really

0:28.3

a theatrical institution, and it opened 95 years ago in 1927.

0:35.5

And as theaters are filling up again in restaurants around town, or once again requiring reservations,

0:42.4

you can't just show up, we thought that it was the right time to give another listen

0:47.0

to the old Sardis show.

0:49.3

And stick around at the end for a couple of notes and points of clarification, there

0:54.0

are after all a couple of really dated references worth mentioning.

1:00.2

Alright, enjoy the show.

1:03.3

Episode 125 of The Bowery Boys, and evening at Sardis.

1:08.2

Hey, it's The Bowery Boys.

1:10.2

Hi there, welcome to The Bowery Boys.

1:25.7

This is Greg Young.

1:26.7

And this is Tom Myers.

1:28.4

125 episodes of The Bowery Boys, or most of those available to listen to.

1:34.4

This is our Quas Quasentennial episode.

1:36.6

I just read that off of my screen on my phone.

1:39.8

I could not remember that word.

1:42.4

But this is our 125th episode.

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