Beach Story / Signature Food
The Water Taxi Beach Black Angus Hot Dog
One of the Beach's defining food stories was not just that hot dogs were on the menu. The archive now ties the LIC dog to a custom-made Stahl-Meyer relationship, strong annual quantities, and a larger Harry Hawk hot-dog lineage.
What the archive can say now.
Water Taxi Beach LIC publicly served Black Angus hot dogs by 2005. WTB's own 2008 and 2009 source wording says the WTB:LIC dog was custom made by Stahl-Meyer, described as a 100 percent Black Angus all-beef hot dog with a classic New York flavor and garlic note.
Direct Stahl-Meyer supplier records begin no later than May 25, 2006, and the relationship is documented through 2009. The source trail also connects the Beach to Schnack and BroomeDoggs-style hot-dog bars, toppings, and food-event programming.
Known quantities.
The strongest quantity sources say the Beach served more than 7,345 pounds of Stahl-Meyer Angus beef hot dogs in 2007 and sold 25,000 hot dogs in 2008. One April 2008 supplier thread documents 32 cases of Black Angus.
If an 8-to-a-pound size applied, the 2007 and 2008 figures would imply roughly 83,760 dogs across those two years. That math is an archive inference, not a final lifetime total.
Oral history and open questions.
Harry remembers roughly 250,000 hot dogs served over the life of the original LIC beach. That remains oral history until more annual invoices, ledgers, or supplier records corroborate it.
The archive does not yet prove exclusive or private-label status, exact casing, exact formulation, final packaging, distributor, or full lifetime quantity.
