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

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Moving Day

Christopher Columbus discovered Amerika in 1492. I – I think it was me – discovered the 328 Club in 1974. As we wore out our welcome there; Sil, serendipitously, discovered the 340 Club. Him & I made the short move six doors up West King Street in August 1975. We had to evacuate the 340 in November 1978.

After giving the block time to recover Phil, Randy, John and I landed in what became known as “the second coming” in February/March 1981. After a couple of years, Mr. Kratzert – owner of both 340 and 338 – desired that we move from one to the other. Thus, breaking the record of moving only six doors away by only moving next door. Today, I think, Phil is going to post for the first time – not counting mandatory by weekly trivia assignments – since March 17th (not counting his May 3rd reprint on the Eels) concerning that move. I expect to do so also later in the day today. Phil (and Sil) just doesn’t remember much more about 340 than he already has shared. Not sure what caused the memory lapse. I know it couldn’t have been the beer; I’m blaming the water since Sil’s memory of that period also seems obliterated. More to follow.

We moved from 340 to 338 effective April 1, 1983.
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2 comments:

Phil said...

"I doth protest", the May 3rd post of the Eels of Death was not a reprint of an earlier Eel story but a post of the Eel victory party complete with some never before published pictures of the event. :)

May 17, 2008 at 9:36 AM
Tee said...

Protest well taken ... still though one cannot escape from the fact that for some reason - again, certainly not the beer - 98.6% of your memory over a memorable period seems to have disappeared. Nice post on the move.

May 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM

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