Kate Seckinger is reporting in The Daily Mail Jim Bryfonski, owner of the former Jim's Lunch on Main St. in Catskill for nearly 50 years, is celebrating his 100th birthday, Fri., Jun. 3. Bryfonski was born in his family home on West Main Street, and has been a resident of Catskill his entire life. He is a graduate of St. Patrick's High School, a lifetime member of the Catskill Citizens Hose Company number 5 and a member of the Elks Club. Bryfonski worked at the 9W dinner and in a restaurant on Bridge Street before he opened Jim's Lunch at 325 Main Street, then the site of the Catskill bus terminal. Governor Nelson Rockefeller ate there and the restaurant is featured in the 1985 film “Hard Choices,” Bryfonski said. “I did all the short order work.... I always loved it – I always loved serving people. I knew everybody … I still miss them,” he said. Bryfonski has seen a lot of changes in Catskill during his lifetime. He remembers when Main Street was made of brick and Bridge Street was dirt, and when the Rip Van Winkle Bridge opened in 1935. "I was the second one on the bridge," Bryfonski said. He crossed ahead of then Gov. Herbert Lehman, who followed two or three cars behind. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.