A Harpoon Eddie's Homecoming

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Summer of 1988 BTP courtesy Sylvan Beach photo booth.

Sylvan Beach Summers

While I write about drinks and I spend a lot of days and nights in bars, my only tenure actually working in a bar was over a string of endless summers from 1988 through 1991 at Harpoon Eddie’s, a seasonal Central New York beach bar located on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake in Syl…