Loading ...A few days after a fire collapsed Olde Liberty Station’s roof into its dining room last September, Harry Leist, the owner, predicted he would reopen in February, hopefully early in the month.
His prediction has come true. Olde Liberty reopened with a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. on Feb. 8th. Sadie Tharp, Bedford Mayor Skip Tharp’s mother, cut the ribbon.
When you walk in the door, the first thing that strikes you is that the restaurant looks like it did before the fire. The ticket booth has been rebuilt; the benches are the originals — Bedford firefighters saved them, hauling them out of the burning building. The lamps are also the originals. Leist said they were straightened and repainted. “They [the workers] did a super job to bring it back to its original look,” said Marty Leist, Harry’s wife and a co-owner of the restaurant.
Read the full article by John Barnhart, published February 3, 2010: www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?030+article+News+20100203113317030030001.
