But Teresa doesn’t want to fixate on comparing regular years’ numbers to this year’s. McSorley’s, along with every other restaurant and bar, has been financially hit because of the pandemic. Teresa said her dad’s motto was simple: “Keep the doors open.” When the ale house shut down during state mandated coronavirus precautions, it was the first time the business closed its doors for a prolonged period of time. Although he’s sorely missed by family, friends, and locals, Teresa admits she’s thankful he didn’t have to deal with the drama of 2020. Teresa’s father Matthew was the third owner of McSorley’s the Irish immigrant began working at the bar in 1965, bought it in 1977, and just recently passed away in January. “How’s everyone doing?” she asked the guys with a youthful, warm smile. She tied her thick, white hair up and rolled up the sleeves of her white button down shirt. Although Lucy never became a regular, women kept coming back, eventually leading to the construction of a women’s restroom in 1986.Īs Teresa started her shift on a recent fall day, she folded down a black trash bag and tied it around her waist, eliminating the possibility of spilling beer in unwanted places. She had come to drink an ale, but left wearing one. A famous photo shows her standing outside the pub drenched in beer, hands on her hips, and being gawked at by a group of giggling men behind her.
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The case was successful and, with the women’s movement in full swing in 1970, Lucy Komisar entered the bar. McSorley’s was famously a gentlemen’s club until 1969, when two members of the National Organization for Women sued the bar under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. But in 1994, Teresa Maher de la Haba became the first McSorley’s bartender with a soprano voice.
McSorley’s Ale House hasn’t changed much in the last century: its floors are still lined with sawdust bought from the same Long Island-based family for the past 80 years, black-and-white photos line its walls containing centuries of history, and a centrally located iron fireplace still burns wood to keep it warm during the winter.
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