Triphammer Wines & Spirits is hosting a store-wide tasting this Saturday. But the business, which moved to the front of the Triphammer Marketplace, soon began roasting its own coffee, set up an espresso bar to offer fresh coffee drinks, before long added bottles and six-packs of craft beer, and then opened a second retail location at the new Gateway Commons building in Downtown Ithaca. Not long after, the family business also expanded by buying Gourmet’s Delight, the cute but sleepy gourmet shop that had been their neighbor in the Triphammer Mall for decades, and renaming it to the Ithaca Coffee Company. As it did in its previous incarnation, the store still sells a wide variety of cheeses and other gourmet foods, as well as premium coffees and teas and the implements with which to prepare them. “Bob proved to be an astute businessman, growing the business from a small liquor store to a significant retailer of both wines and spirits that evolved with the trending interests locally and nationwide,” says Julie. It wasn’t until she returned in 2002 that the family business moved into the space vacated by the A&P supermarket. The family rebranded the store as Triphammer Liquors and expanded a couple of times. “As a kid,” Julie tells us, “I knew this was a business that my grandparents started, that it was a family business.” When Al became sick, his wife Margaret took over with help from Julie’s dad, Bob Crowley.Īfter the store spent twenty years in Downtown Ithaca, Bob took over in 1962, and with mother Margaret’s blessings, moved the business up to the brand new Triphammer Plaza. When he opened his new liquor store in 1941, at 222 1/2 South Cayuga Street, roughly where the lobby of the Hotel Ithaca sits now, he brought a loyal following with him. “My grandfather, Al Crowley, founded Crowley’s Liquor Store in 1941,” says current owner Julie Crowley, who moved back to Ithaca in 2002 to take over the business.Īl Crowley decided he wanted a change of pace after years in the restaurant business, and sold the successful Crowley’s Restaurant in 1940. Crowley’s Liquor Store opened on South Cayuga Street in 1941.
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