I told him, if you were a woman, you’d be pregnant all the time. We never had those poker machines in the bar my brother didn’t want people to lose money. My brother always wanted to take care of our customers. My brother never wanted to take any money from them. We had all these ladies who used to come to the Manhattan, and they kept coming for lunch every day when we opened. We made the deli into the Pub Room, and upstairs we built the disco. The USO, a club for soldiers, was above the original bar, and then next door was a deli, and we took them over. So he asked me - I’m straight - why don’t we do it together? There was an old place on 13th Street called the Manhattan for sale, and we bought it. And Bill worked at Roscoe’s, a gay bar, and then he tended bar at the DCA, and people were always asking him to open a bar. We grew up at 24th and Lehigh, not too far from Temple my parents died when we were young. Stephen Wood, former co-owner, Woody’s, and co-owner, Knock: My brother Bill and I opened Woody’s in 1980.
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