"The Taliban couldn't hurt these floors." "Nothing can hurt these floors," Dick said. The tin ceiling, mahogany bar and stone terrazzo floors remain from the Wysocki era. Lenny Picariello, whose reign lasted 20 and a half years, added the kitchen and expanded the once-tiny bathrooms. In 1980, Dick Schultz and Gene Cross started the open mic stage shortly after taking over the bar. "I never liked them."īoth Schultzes remember other long gone staples of the bar: a jukebox with 45 Rpm Records, a cigarette machine and a now-sealed door which led to a small porch nicknamed "The Garden Cafe" where people went out to get "fresh air." "We took the beads down," Dick said flatly. In the 1970s, a groovy bead curtain hung between the two main rooms of Shifty's. The name never changed, but the bar certainly did. Sooner or later, somebody's going to say, 'Hey, I've been there.'" You could be walking the streets of Manhattan or New Orleans wearing a Shifty's T-shirt.
He never even considered changing the name. Jason Purdy and Ron Schultz: 2006-presentįormer owner Dick Schultz, who bears no relation to current owner Ron Schultz, still visits Shifty's about four times a week.
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