An OPEN LETTER to … Freddie Wakim …

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Freddie:

You’ve made us all “Norm!!” through the years, and that’s been really cool.  Thanks for that.

And thanks for following the family example as the chief barkeep and proprietor of Wakim’s Bar. A bar, not a sports bar or a cocktail bar or a singles bar or a craft beer bar. Not a lounge, not a club, and not even a tavern or a pub. A bar.

Wakim’s Bar, the one with drafts and bottles and smokes and candy and the lottery and keno, and there are pops and peanuts and the pièce de resistance, the Sauce Dog. There’s a pool table and poker machines, and it’s always warm and welcoming, but there are no windows and no websites.

You, friend, are the third generation to keep Wakim’s the bar it’s been for a century, and we pray Gen4 will follow the lead.

Sincerely,

Norm!!

Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney
Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

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