Syracuse Polish Home — Attraction in City of Syracuse

Late meeting scheduled because a meeting took my developers from the originally scheduled meeting. So I am on the late bus to home, missing the express back to Fayetteville. I'm not a big fan of the late bus because the late bus takes forever to reach downtown. I could go up to Syracuse U to see the films of graduating filmmakers. I could go south into a tough neighborhood to visit an open house at a refugee center. I could drop by an event celebrating a new business at a cooperative kitchen where caterers and food processors can cook up a storm and sell commercially. Or I could go to the Old Polish Home for dinner. I think it is Syracuse's only Polish society, where Muskegon supported ten or more. I visited last night, enjoyed a beer, talked with a woman teaching Polish classes, met a few folks just off the boat from Poland. I even met Creative Anachronism folks about to duel and joust. So I paid twenty-five bucks, filled out a membership application and was issued a card. I found that to be surprisingly quick. The club has the hundredth year anniversary planned, so it's been on the scene a long time. The bar awaited in the basement, and I found it to be dimly lit by sunlight alone. The day outside made one sweat but the basement bar was as cool as grandmother's basement, without air conditioning. Sound familiar?

February 23, 2019

I found myself on Park Avenue, walking towards the great Catholic Cathedral, its bells tolling to announce Saturday mass. At the Old Polish Home, now one hundred years old, I found that my membership was still current and I sat at a long table, drank a Budweiser. A volunteer brought me a modestly priced dinner of potato leek soup and fried Pierogi. During halftime of the Duke Syracuse matchup, the volunteers shared cake and all sang Tomas a happy birthday, first in English and then in Polish. The group that had seated themselves at my long table spoke in Polish. The father twice offered me a shot and introduced his family. He had left Poland in the last days of...

I go there once a month and visit with my God father, tip a few , play shuffle board, and hear some interesting stories from different people and experience a variety of cultures. You meet perhaps more generation's there than any other place in Syracuse.only one catch, U either have to be a member or a members guest, I am the latter . U never know what's going on every time U go there, sometimes there is a wedding reception or someone's birthday! And almost everyone comes into the bar to tip a few or toast, and what's great a lot of times U find UR self eating all kinds of food from the event, they are pretty generous when it comes to sharing in...

$25 for a yearly membership gets you some of the best dam alcohol and liquor prices in the area. Birthday dinners once a month and free for your month. Every 1st Sunday of the month is breakfast, Saturday night dinners during the fall/winter months, events are always fun...and of course SU basketball!! Good people, bartenders are the best... great food and Charlie cheeseburger night on Mondays only during fall/winter. Don't have to be a member to check it out the...