The 3rd periodic 340 Club Reunion has been postponed indefinitely

Before there was an Animal House there was a 340 Club; before there was a Dean Wormer there was a Harold "the fuck" Martin; before there was John Blutarsky or a Daniel Simpson Day there was Tim Lutter, Sil Simpson, Dan Joyce, Tim Getzloff, Dick Lichty, Jim Shay, Phil Zangari, Chris Joyce, Dave Petkosh, Mitch Herr, Kenny Giltner, Dean Staherski, Randy Brown, John Emswiler, Sue Krimmell Emswiler and myself; before there were any Delta Tau Chi pledge pins, there were 340 Club cards; before Otis Day & the Knights, the 340 Jukebox; before there were Delta Brothers there were the usual gang of idiots that congregated at 328, 340 (twice) and 338 West King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a decade beginning in August 1974. This blog is dedicated to those idiots and those times. God bless Kenny, Mitch and Chris; may they rest in peace.

















virtual 340 Club members

Monday, January 7, 2008

Eels of Death

The weekend of October 2nd and 3rd,1982,saw a street hockey team from Lancaster,the Eels of Death, consisting of players from several local teams, descend upon the Bel-Mont Sports Arena in Kittaning,Pa.


Whoever "brain-stormed" the idea of assembling a group of players to compete in a tournament away from home for just fun and enough talent to be competetive,I cannot recall. The seeds for the idea no doubt originated at Zangari's South. The entire active roster save for Steve Dellinger was comprised of 340 regulars. Craig Rice,another non-340 visitor,listed in the Official program below,declined at the last minute and was effectively replaced by Tommy Roschel, a veteran of W.King Street shenanigans.










The Motel 's marquee after some late night re-arranging of the letters by certain members of the entourage.

2 comments:

Tee said...

Nobody - other than young Jason who obviously was not one of the beer guzzlers - was underage on the trip and I stand behind my estimate of 36 cases ... after all it was a 3 day trip ... one develops a thirst playing and/or providing security

Sil said...

Actually, what I meant was that any team that would oppose the Eeeeeels had to be idiots.

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