Hartford Pay Phone #40: Baker's Cafe

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, all Hartfordites can exhale as Pay Phone #40 is unveiled in the greatest scavenger hunt to ever hit Hartford. While Sad City is determined to make pay phones Hartford landmarks, Pay Phone #40 itself is located in a Hartford landmark, the legendary Baker's Cafe on New Britain Ave.

Sad City's Fractured Fan Base

Professional hockey has been in Hartford for 37 years.

 In that time there has only been two teams here from three different leagues but the fan base is not split, it's fractured. 

There are about half a dozen fan factions.

The New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association moved to Hartford from Boston for the 1974-75 season.  Hartford at the time was the head quarters of the WHA as well.

In 1979-80 season the WHA merged with the National Hockey League, joining the NHL was the newly named Hartford Whalers.  They played in Hartford until the 1996-97 season.

Hartford Pic Of The Week

We can all agree that it's bad advice. But is it graffiti or art?

Ice Cream!

On Thursday, July 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., neighbors from near and far can come to The Mark Twain House & Museum to enjoy lawn games, live music, hot dogs, discounted tours -- and, of course, a refreshing cup of ice cream donated by the UConn Dairy Bar, Shady Glenn, and Royal Ice Cream.


This is the fourth year for The Mark Twain House & Museum Ice Cream Social, which always draws a good crowd. After the social, at 7:00 p.m., there will be a preview screening of the ocumentary Linotype: The Film, a look at the unusual way printing technology changed in Mark Twain's day and after.

The Ice Cream Social this year benefits from a special grant for free programs fromThe First Niagara Bank Foundation.

The event includes:

Appettite: Now I Feel Old

Lifted from Deadspin.com

"You can taste the bright lights but you won't get them for free"

The seminal sports blog Deadspin is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of Appetite For Destruction by having readers send in their stories of the first time they heard the best album of the decade. Appetite was released on July 21, 1987. Coincidentally, Sad City would start appearing on Craig The Porn Star's WCCC program exactly 23 years later. After a quarter century, it's hard to overstate just how good Appetite was/is. While other music of the era has faded into hipster novelty, Appetite powerfully delivers over and over and over and over and over again.

Two Years Of Sad City & WCCC

Some might say that Sad City has become to Hartford blogs what WCCC is to Hartford rock stations. It's only naturally that we would team up at some point, what is surprising is how fast it happened. WCCC night jock Craig The Porn Star discovered Sad City on Facebook when we had "something like 30-35 fans." Craig suggested we should call in and that if it went well, maybe we could do it on a regular basis. Two year and close to 100 appearances later, Sad City can still be heard at about 9:20-9:30 Wednesday nights on Craig's show which airs Monday to Friday 7PM to midnight.

To celebrate our two years with Craig and WCCC, we present some of our more memorable appearances and in doing so, give you a great way to fritter away your work Monday. Let us know if the comments, which appearance is your favorite?

Hartford Pic Of The Week

This pic does not do justice to just how awesome the Cinnamon Toast Crunch bike actually. Send us your Pic Of The Week contenders!