Crawldo: 2nd Annual Waldo Pub Crawl
On May 18, 2006, at 6:00pm, six Waldo pubs: Kennedy’s (fine Irish name), Lew’s Grill & Bar (our Celtic Welsh cousins), 75th St Brewery (by KC Hopps, the people who keep O’Dowd’s Irish), Bobby Baker’s Lounge, Fin’s Waldo Bar, and Tanners, will again play host to the Waldo Crawldo Pub Crawl for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
For $10 you can obliterate brain cells and fund blood research at the same time. If you do it in all six venues you’re eligible for $5,000 worth of prizes. Tickets go on sale May 1st at the Waldo venues or online at WaldoCrawldo.
All locations are within walking distance of 75th & Wornall, but possibly, like the Star’s Hearne Christopher, you spotted that new Irish pub The Gaf on Wornall at about 71st Terrace is not included:
It’s not within walking distance says organizer Chris Lewellen of Lew’s
That puts ‘walking distance’ at something less than six minutes. As the Crawldo site says, Park and Enjoy!
Handy Irish Phrase: Níor chuaigh fial riamh go hIfreann (No generous person ever went to hell)
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
The Gaf is 1/2 mile from the nearest bar in Waldo. A one mile round trip is not something I want to do when I had a few cocktails. What if it rained?
Whether from Bobby Baker’s or from Tanner’s, it’s four numbered streets down Wornall. Since the point of a Pub Crawl is to actually stop at each pub and drink in there, it’s disingenuous to double the distance as if there was no break. Otherwise you could add up the entire length of the crawl and call it a sponsored walk - which I’m sure comes to a mile anyway - if you’re talking a full circular trip.
If it rains, well it rains, and one gets as wet as they get walking across the parking lot from Lew’s excellent Grill & Bar to Fin’s or Kennedy’s.
Funny enough it was raining tonight and I did that very walk. I don’t think I would have got any wetter with cocktails inside me.
Don’t mean to be a pain - as the Crawldo is a great idea, but couldn’t something like “get your card stamped in 6 out of 7 pubs” work? It would give people a whole range of options for routes based on their walking preference, and a get out clause for an outlier pub if it rained.
With the Gaf being by a Max stop I don’t see why people couldn’t forgo the round-trip, finish at The Gaf, and then bus back drily and safely to their car a few blocks south?