Joe's hangout was Katie's in Wilmington's Little Italy. Meet many a time there. Saw him a couple times at St. Anthony's Italian Fest.
Now, Jill......was married to Bill Stevenson, owner of the Stone Balloon in Newark. In the very early days she was a part-time bartender there, great one at that. But once the place got going she stopped. Of course once it became famous [ Springsteen and George T. played there], it really got to Bill's head figuratively and literally [ coke gone wild], she left him.
Life was great back then in the late 60s, early 70s; I will leave it at that........
I've seen him at the St. Anthony's festival. He is actually a friend of my dad. Dad tried telling me stories of how they know each other but then again my dad knows everyone. Joe Biden used to take my dad for rides around in his cars when they were teenagers. He's a really nice guy, we would bump into him and he'd always call my dad by his first name and ask him about the family and such. I remember one time we ran into him at the Italian festival and he knew me and my brother play hockey and he asked if I was the goalie (that's my brother).
He's a really nice guy and many of the nice/lighthearted media interactions capture how he is in real life. He's funny, comes off as someones grandpop.
He was also good friends with Joes sister Valerie who ran his campaigns for him. I remember we were out at a seafood restaurant in Wilmington and Valarie was there with friends/family as well and she got up and came over to say hi to us.
There was also the time that Joe name dropped my Dad during one of the vice presidential debates and told a story about how he ran into a firefighter joey danko at the gas station in wilmington and asked my dad how much it cost to fill his tank and my dad said "i don't know joe, i can't afford to fill it"
2008 Vice Presidential Candidates Debate (10:09)
The next morning Radio Stations/News Stations called and harassed us all day, and made my dad somewhat of a local celebrity for a few days...Curtis Sliwa who is a giant piece of shit called my dad harassing him live on air unexpectedly at 6 in the morning waking my dad from his sleep after doing a 24 hour shift at the firehouse.
They also made a skit on a VH1 show where a comedian pretended to be "Joey Danko from Delaware"