Attention Temple Owls, There’s a Fishtown Bar Crawl Happening Featuring Businesses Owned by Temple Alumni

Looks like Fishtown will be overtaken by owls soon. Well, more like Temple Owls. On Saturday April 20th, the Alumni Temple Tavern Tour will take place at four Temple alumni owned businesses.

From 3 pm to 6 pm, Temple alums will get an opportunity to patronize and support their fellow owls on this special crawl. The Alumni Temple Tavern Tour will include stops at Humble Parlor (530 E Girard Ave.) , Interstate Draft House (1235 E Palmer) , Garage Fishtown (100 E Girard Ave.) , and Saint Lazarus Bar aka The Saint (102 W Girard Ave.).

Participating alumni will get a special card that will be stamped with every purchase of drinks from Victory, Union Forge, Jacquin’s, or Fishtown Iced Tea. Then at 6:30 pm a special gathering will take place at Saint Lazarus Bar, where all cards will be submitted and a special drawing will take place for a chance to win special prizes.

So how did this come about?  “A discussion amongst the Temple alumni owned establishments in Fishtown took place and we saw a need to work together.  Bar crawls are a fun way to introduce customers of one establishment in an area to another establishment.  We don’t view each other as competitors but rather partners.  We want to work to make Fishtown the coolest neighborhood in the city,” stated Temple alum and Interstate Draft House owner Michael McCloskey.

Not only will this crawl help to support local businesses but also provide a chance for fellow Owls to gather, catch up, and swap stories of yesteryear. “Everyone has their own unique experience when attending Temple, but at the same time it is a shared one.  However, for me – growing up in fishtown when it wasn’t as common for many. Temple was a more commuter bases school at that time and most students were from Philadelphia and the surrounding area where they might have been the first in their family to go to college. The Temple student is scrappy and very Philly.  Temple is Philadelphia’s public University and it shows by how we represent an overwhelming percentage of college graduates living in the Philadelphia area,” McCloskey added.