Read a memorial Steve Hemmingsen wrote about Sid
As my friend Earl Petty said to me once when he was living a few blocks from Sid’s liquor store, “Home values should be based on how close you live to a liquor store.”
Read a memorial Steve Hemmingsen wrote about Sid
As my friend Earl Petty said to me once when he was living a few blocks from Sid’s liquor store, “Home values should be based on how close you live to a liquor store.”
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I’m going to need a few 40s for this one.
Nothing snarky to say here.
Wonder what is going to happen to the store?
Did Sid maintain ownership this whole time?
I always though the employees should take over the joint. I remember a lot of long-timers working there (Dark Mark, Dale, Lance, etc.) They made Sid’s as much of a neighborhood liquor store as the clientele did. It’s one of the things I actually miss about Sioux Falls.
Maybe that location is where they should build the new EC.
Well AG, it’s certainly better than the current plan by a mile.
I respect Sid (the original Beer Jew?) and he was a local icon and all, but quite frankly he wasn’t anything more than a lowballer. His customer service was crappy at best.
My wife bought a bottle of wine that had turned a couple years ago and he grumbled angrily at me when I returned it that: “There’s nothing wrong with this.” In other words, Me and/or my wife were liars. I told him to taste it and he said he didn’t need to. He tried to get me to take another one, and I told him that wasn’t an option since the whole case might be bad. So he barked at his clerk to make sure I didn’t get anything more than the price of the bottle in exchange and stomped off. Nice.
I highly doubt he or his family would consider letting the employees buy the place, my guess is one of the grandkids will run it on behalf of the family, and they’ll carry his legacy of low prices, crappy service and keeping the place looking as close to a NY slum as they can.
It’s a dump alright, but a funny dump.
For the record, I’m not Jewish, but I do enjoy beer.
There used to be a guy named Kelly who worked in Sid’s. Great guy but he’d fuck a snake if somebody held it’s head for him. He told of getting blow jobs out back from some of the local crones hanging around in exchange for a cheap pint of wine. Evidently Sid never found out about this practice. I think Kelly is dead now.