PUBLETTERS IS THERE, at AQUI•MERO! Join Us… under the awesome dome of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on South Broad Street

Posted on January 15, 2018 by phillytyper

This very Tuesday, the 16th of January, Publetters continues its inconspicuous circuit of Center City hotel bars and lounges. We will set up our Samsonite SLIM-LINE (TM) brief case, loaded with stamps and stationery, at AQUIMERO, the handsome lounge set within the soaring lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, on Broad Street just north of Chestnut Street.  • • •  We’ll be there from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., But we advise you to arrive early, as their excellent Happy Hour runs from 4 p.m. to just 6:30 p.m.  Order promptly to save a penny, which is very much like earning one!   • • •  Publetters’ stationery and such are free, thanks to the kindness of the Yards Brewing Company (makers of Poor Richard’s Tavern Spruce Ale) and Trophy Bikes, sellers of the Brompton folder, considered the world’s best folding bike.

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The SAMSONITE SLIM LINE Brief Case, as displayed by Mr. Franklin; note the Air Mail envelope, which distinguishes it from other such business luggage as you may encounter this Tuesday evening in the lobby of the Ritz=Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia.
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THIS TUESDAY – 101 N. Broad Street, at the W XYZ Bar; join us from 6 to 8 p.m.

Posted on January 8, 2018 by phillytyper

SAVE THE US POSTAL SERVICE join us in OLD CITY on TUESDAY, June 23, lunchtime!

We are “just passing on through” this neat & new hotel bar tucked next to the second-floor lobby of the also-new Aloft Hotel at 101 N. Broad Street. THUS,please don’t ask the host or bartender “Where’s Publetters?” Instead, look for this Samsonite SlimLine Briefcase (on loan from Don Draper / pictured below) with an AirMail envelope affixed to it. Ask the silver-haired man behind said briefcase for some stationery or a post card – and get started!  NOTE:  our January Publetters sessions all run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m – at a different hotel bar each Tuesday.* (PRO TIP: Hotel lounges can be spendier… but most, including this week’s one, have Happy Hours till 6:30 or so. ARRIVE EARLY, order PROMPTLY and SAVE)

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We’ll let you know NEXT TUESDAY’S HOTEL BAR LOCATION AT THE END OF THIS TUESDAY’S SESSION – or watch us…

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THIS TUESDAY – 101 N. Broad Street, at the W XYZ Bar; join us from 6 to 8 p.m.

Posted on January 8, 2018 by phillytyper

We are “just passing on through” this neat & new hotel bar tucked next to the second-floor lobby of the also-new Aloft Hotel at 101 N. Broad Street. THUS, please don’t ask the host or bartender “Where’s Publetters?” Instead, look for this Samsonite SlimLine Briefcase (on loan from Don Draper / pictured below) with an Air Mail envelope affixed to it. Ask the silver-haired man behind said briefcase for some stationery or a post card – and get started!  NOTE:  our January Publetters sessions all run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m – at a different hotel bar each Tuesday.* (PRO TIP: Hotel lounges can be spendier… but most, including this week’s one, have Happy Hours till 6:30 or so. ARRIVE EARLY, order PROMPTLY and SAVE)

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We’ll let you know NEXT TUESDAY’S HOTEL BAR LOCATION AT THE END OF THIS TUESDAY’S SESSION – or watch us here, on FB/Twitter/Instagram for an announcement 48 hours in advance!

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AD HOC HOTEL BAR TOUR–starts Jan. 9

Posted on January 2, 2018 by phillytyper

For January Publetters will be peripatetic: we will visit a different hotel bar/lounge every Tuesday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. •  We will announce locations each Sunday night, both here and via Twitter/Instagram @publetters.  PRO TIP: Hotel Bars can cost a little more for drinks, and a lot more for meals–thus we’re going from 6 to 8 to take advantage of any Happy Hour savings. CapeCod

 Also: we are attending these cozy little spaces as a regular pub patron and doing Publetters on the down-low, so track us down (We’ll have a Samsonite briefcase with an airmail envelope on it, and an airmail envelope next to our glass; just quietly remind us you’re here to write a letter–we’ll fix you up with paper or a post card) and get started. We don’t want to make any fuss for the venue, so just seek us out, please don’t ask the hostess, “Hey where’s Publetters, anyway?”

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ALSO: all of the locations will be within walking distance of City Hall, and most will have Happy Hours that end at 6:30 or 7 p.m., so arrive early and order to save! Please watch this space or follow us on Instagram or Twitter to get the location announcement. Thanks and Happy New Year!

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We’re in the home stretch for 2017– at DOOBIES BAR this very DECEMBER

Posted on December 2, 2017 by phillytyper

OK, do you really want to be part of the throng who vow to stay more in touch with their friends and relations … in the New Year?

Why wait to make a resolution? – take action now and put it in writing at PUBLETTERS, every single Tuesday in December at the place where it all began–DOOBIES BAR at 22nd & Lombard Streets, where Center City bumps into Southwest Center City and mumbles, “Hey, sorry, I didn’t see you there!”

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Settle down with a good drink, and a nice sheet of stationery or perhaps a handsome post card in front of you. (we provide everything, even stamps and loaner pens) Put your words onto the page as people have done for centuries when they want to reach out to someone they care about. Repeat as desired. We count up the letters at the end and even walk them to the U.S. Postal Service Mail Box  –clunk!– for you.

We will be starting at our usual 7:05 p.m. (give or take a minute or two) and going till 9-ish at Doobies; first one is December 5th. (And the 12th, 19th & 26th) We hope to see you at one or all of those pleasant evenings. AS ALWAYS, Publetters is FREE, thanks to Trophy Bikes (the shop that’s open a lot)  and Yards Brewing (makers of Chocolate Love Stout).

REMINDER: always write your city and the full date at the top –because paper mail can last one thousand years and this will give future historians a vital clue!

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FERGIES PUB: good turnout in rain is heartening!

Posted on November 10, 2017 by phillytyper

Talent means nothing–unless you show up.

Beautiful cards and letters from last Tuesday

And they did, despite a miserable, chilly rain that blanketed Philly from start to finish. When we were done, 28 cards and letters slid (had slud?) into the mail box, bound for sunny Palm Beach, FL, tiny Mableton, GA and to some notables in Mar-a-Lago, Berlin, Germany (Yo, Chancellor Merkel!) and Houston, TX (hope to see you back on the field, Colin Kaepernick!).

Next Tuesday (11/14) will be chilly but clear, and we hope to see you inside 1214 Sansom Street (between 5:59 and 8-ish p.m.) for the second of four Publetters at Fergie’s.

PUBLETTERS IS FREE, OF COURSE. Thanks to the new, improved Yards Brewing Co. and to Trophy Bikes (the shop that’s open a lot).

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40% of Publetters sessions at The Bishop’s Collar completed!

Posted on October 11, 2017 by phillytyper

Advice to a traveling friend on a giant post card!

OK, with two Tuesdays behind us, we’ve put more than 50 carefully hand-written post cards and letters into the hungry mail boxes of the United States Postal Service.

That is but a drop in the ocean of First-Class Mail the USPS moves every year.

If you haven’t Googled it yet, here’s the size of that ocean: in 2016, the USPS delivered 19.7 BILLION pieces of stamped, first-class mail, making the USPS the mightiest postal service on Earth.

Help us add to that total next Tuesday, Oct. 17 (or the 24th or the 31); as we set out an array of stationery, stamps and pens at about  7:02 p.m. and go till 9-ish at The Bishop’s Collar. FREE , of course, thanks to Yards Brewing and Trophy Bikes.  

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OPENING NIGHT REPORT: The Bishop’s Collar, 24th & Fairmount, PHL

Posted on October 4, 2017 by phillytyper

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We had a very encouraging start to this long (FIVE Tuesdays’ run) October at The Bishop’s Collar, a Fairmount pub of the classic variety.  Letter-writing recidivists Woody D. and Robert E set the tone early, and we had 22 letters and post cards tumble into the mail box before last call.  We wrote to the 45th, er, President of the United States, to pals in Golden’s Bridge, NY, to Postmaster Shannon Mitchell, who runs the smallest US Post Office in the U.S. in Ochopee, FL, and to friends and relations in Croton-on-Hudson, and London-on-Thames – as nobody calls it.   A couple of respectful post cards went to a complicated man, U.S. Sen. John McCain AND we also wrote to Maria Paternoster, the astonishing lead guitarist/vocalist for the Screaming Females, in New Brunswick NJ.

OK – can’t help it, click here to see  MP and the SFs demolishing Shake It Off:

Hope you liked that…!  And we further hope you will come by any (or every) Tuesday this month (see dates above!) and put pen to paper. Next one: October 10. We will stack up the stationery starting at about 7:02, (give or take) and go till 9-ish.  FREE, of course, thanks to Yards Brewing and Trophy Bikes. (a symbiotic relationship if ever there was one: Beer has carbs and Bikes burn them)

LOOKING AHEAD: We will close out this, er, “challenging” year of 2017 at Fergies on Tuesdays in November (starts early–6pm to 8pm), and Doobies for December, regular time of 7-9ish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fare Thee Well September!

Posted on September 26, 2017 by phillytyper

We will be in a different location come October (see below) – BUT NOT YET. Tonight, join us for one last Publetters in one of our favorite bars–Bridgewaters Pub, nestled just inside 30th Street Station, 30th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. We will lay out a nice selection of paper, envelopes, stamps and so on, beginning at about 2 minutes past 7 p.m. (give or take!)  A few things to know about Bridgewaters: 1) There is no apostrophe after the ‘r” ; they have a very good selection of beers, especially Belgian and German varieties; the kitchen goes well beyond pub grub, turning out a really nice selection from snacks to entrees. They play good tunes. You can get to Bridgewaters from anywhere in the region VERY quickly by transit. As for October, scroll down, past this picture of a past Publetters, please…

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Take a seat, get a drink, ink a letter. Nothing better.

We’ve been to Brewerytown (Era Bar) but never done a Publetters series in Fairmount, or “Art Museum Area” as some realtors call it! Join us any or all of 5 (yup, five!) Tuesdays in October at The Bishop’s Collar, a very nice neighborhood pub at the corner of 24th Street and Fairmount Avenue. Starts at 7 p.m., goes for a couple hours. First one is Next Tuesday, October 3rd. FREE, as always–thanks to Yards Brewing and Trophy Bikes.

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PUBLETTERS IS BACK: in 30th St. Station!

Posted on August 28, 2017 by phillytyper

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 Bridgewaters Pub is tucked just steps from one of the grandest public spaces in Philadelphia, the main waiting room of Amtrak 30th Street Station.  Bridgewaters has handsome woody interior, a kitchen several notches above your usual tavern, and offers a deep selection of beers on tap and in bottles. So we are very happy to host Publetters there each and every Tuesday in September, from 7 to 9 p.m.  Our first letter-writing session is September 5th.   Join us!

Bridgewaters Pub is located in the South Concourse of 30th Street Station, at the NE corner of 30th and Market Streets.  There is, basically, NOWHERE that doesn’t somehow connect to this mighty train terminal. Every SEPTA Regional Rail Line makes a stop here; as do many Amtrak lines, NJT’s Atlantic City Line, the Boltbus and Megabus, SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line, and all five Subway-Surface trolley lines, and a ton of city buses. It’s 2 min. by bike from the Schuylkill River Trail, and you can dock your Indego bikeshare right outside.      • • •      You can even find metered parking if you insist on driving a motor vehicle!

 In short, if you want to come to Publetters, boy, is this an easy one. 

 

[ Note Well: Publetters is FREE of charge, thanks to Trophy Bikes and Yards Brewing Company, makers of Philly Pale Ale, to name our personal Yards fave.]

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