WOW...can you believe that's Joe's way back when it first opened? Once the site of a Tobacco Shop, Joe's opened in 1960.

Located 60 miles from Philadelphia in the beautiful Lehigh Valley. Joe's opened for buisiness as a small town neighborhood tavern catering to the working folks of Bethlehem Steel and other local industries. still in The Valley!!!

Started by Joe Salak himself a coal miner who lost his job when the mines of St. Clair flooded from the devastation of Hurricane Theresa. He needed to support his family so he traveled down to Bethlehem and bought himself a bar. (Sort of like Jed Clampett). Joe didn't find any bubbling crude but he did manage to get a few bubbling beers on tap for a mere nickle a glass. Can you believe that...a dollar went a long way back then! He put his wife, Helen, to work in the kitchen (where else?), draped an apron on his son Russ, fresh out of the Air Force, and there you have it..Joe's Tavern was born.