Friday, February 22, 2008

Going Extinct Near You: OTB


"Come on! Come on! YEEEEE-AAAAAHHHH! My horse won!
Ahhhh Hells ye-ah!"

Daddy, why you fucking me? It seems like you can't walk too far without running into one of these hell holes. The perception is they're full of drunks, but the NYT article doesn't really mention that.

1 comment:

RYAN! said...

According to the article, "One of the first two locations scheduled to be shut is on Steinway Street in Astoria, a narrow hall with a core clientele of older men who speak Greek and read the tabloids."

That's my neighborhood OTB! I've never been, so I'm not worried about missing out on the "action," but if that fucker closes I can just see all those creeky Greek men left to wander the streets, and gibber-gabbering nonsense and starting small fires and throwing cans at passer-by and busting out car headlights and betting on how long it takes the cops to show up.