In 1996, while Jack was recovering from kidney transplant surgery, Tom’s son Mark moved home from college and began helping around the bar. Unfortunately, during recovery, Jack passed away in February of 1998. Now with Mark’s help, in 1999 Tom would decide to make a bigger expansion of the bar in place of the parking lot that Ed had bought back in 1976. A brand new 3,000 square foot bar room would bring capacity to over 100 people and would enable the old bar room to be used as a party room and still is to this day.