With ten days to go, it’s time to let everyone know where we’ll be crawling this year.
With the addition of Envy and Sharkies, we now have 20 bars in our lineup. Specifically, those spots are (roughly from east to west): Sharkies, Envy, The Lions Den, Primanti Bros, Brewery, Adam’s Apple, ShandyGaff, Doggies Pub, Mad Mex, Jax, Phyrst, Local Whiskey, Champs Downtown, Pickles, Zeno’s, Allen Street Grill, The Basement Nightspot, Federal Taphouse, Cafe 210, and Chrome.
As usual, the official start time will be 8 pm. This year, we will have three official starting spots – Cafe 210 West, Federal Taphouse, and Primanti Bros. As we have done for the last couple of years, come 9 pm Crawlers will spread out to any of the remaining spots on the Crawl. All of them have been alerted to expect Santa Crawlers to start arriving around 9 pm. Some of them, like the Basement Nightspot, will be opening their doors even earlier in anticipation of our arrival.
Wristband sales will begin next week. Tomorrow we’ll announce the specific locations where you can get them. You need not purchase the wristbands ahead of time. All of the starting locations will have wristbands for sale, so you can wait until the day of the event to pick them up. If you prefer to get them ahead of time, you can pre-purchase them next week.
For those who can’t wait until 8 pm to start, we will once again be having Happy Hours in advance of the official starts. Look for an announcement next week detailing the Happy Hour locations.
Note: I apologize for using a much dated image as the psuedo lede for this story. I love the Pubs of Happy Valley poster a lot and it seemed like kind of an appropriate image. That said, it’s amazing to look at the poster and realize how many of the establishments are gone or under new names. Lots of memories from those lost pubs, but also lots of opportunity to make new memories at their replacements. BTW – the poster is still available at many downtown stores.