1976
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The bar named “The Huddle” was a
Tarrytown institution in its time. At the
time that Red O’Brien opened it (in the
mid-1960s), it could very well have served
as the model for the future Sports Bar
trend. N.Y. Jets photos and related football
items were displayed on its walls, hence its
name–Huddle. You might have even seen a
member of the N.Y. Jets sitting at the bar,
as at that time, this pro-football team
trained not too far away–in Peekskill.
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On weekends–or on a Wednesday Ladies’
Night–groups from Marymount College
were often present. It reportedly closed
in the 1980s, its last owner remaining in the
tavern business but moving his operations
to N.T. No. 22 Main St. is presently occupied
by a Cuban restaurant; in between such
community service, it served simply as a
laundromat.
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In 2011, according to the local news
publication Patch, a then-new Sleepy
Hollow sports bar had been given the
name of a “friendly neighborhood
gathering place that had existed in
Tarrytown many years ago.” Alas, this
“Huddle 2.0” has, by now, closed, as
well--reportedly--permanently. Finally,
this remembrance (once shared via the
internet) illustrates well the mystique of
the Huddle’s original incarnation: “I was
not allowed to . . . but my brother and I
would go.”
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