Japanese-American grocery store trying to show where they stand the day after Pearl Harbor, Dec 8 1941
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Since 1935, the Clam Box. The building itself was constructed in 1938. It’s in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Hubig’s Pies Factory, a New Orleans food heritage site that survived Katrina was lost to a fire Friday. This is the kind of community food landmark that are part of all our lives. This blog and the projects of The Food Museum are dedicated to calling attention to them. The New York Times reports:
The local love for Hubig’s, he said, is “part of the code” of living in New Orleans, which treasures fancy restaurants like Galatoire’s and po’ boy sandwich joints. “They love Hubig’s pies as much as they love bananas Foster,” he said. It’s the catholic embrace of high and low, and a sensibility that says too much ain’t enough. Most of all, it’s a love of tradition in a place with hundreds of years of history and a long history of loss.
Charles Parent, the fire chief, recalled in an interview with the television station WDSU that the company gave unsold pies to firefighters and police officers in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, and so they felt the loss keenly. “Our guys put this out with their tears,” he said.
For now, New Orleans is without its little pies. Hubig’s fans sought out their treats in every gas station and supermarket where they are sold. “We opened up at 6, and I would say they were gone by a quarter of 7,” said John Serpas, manager of the Harrison Grocery in the Lakeview neighborhood. The woman who bought the last two pies, he said, took the box, with the legend “A New Orleans Tradition.” She said, “This might be worth some money later in life.” Read more
“McGillin’s Olde Ale House threw open its doors the year Lincoln was elected president. That’s shortly after the Liberty Bell cracked and long before ground was broken for Philadelphia City Hall. The beer taps have been flowing since 1860 — making it the oldest continuously operating tavern in Philadelphia.”
George W Palmer, Alaska pioneer after whom Palmer, AK is named, was not only the first person to grow veggies commercially in the Matanuska Valley, but established this store, also a first, in about 1898.
Since 1198. Now that’s food heritage. Ireland’s oldest pub, The Brazen Head in Dublin started out as a coach house.
“The Brazen Head is officially Ireland’s oldest pub, dating back to 1198. While it is unclear how much of the original 11th century coach house is still intact, there is a palpable sense of history within these timeworn walls.”
nypl:
You’ll be able to see an actual Automat machine at our new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC, opening June 22!!
Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan. by New York Public Library on Flickr.
Man takes pie out of Automat, stone counters and walls below metal and glass display.
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Established for Irish working men in 1854, McSorley’s, on New York’s Lower East Side, did not allow women on its premises for well over a century. ( Some of us remember this.) Since 1970 women have been able to enter the joint, and since 1986 women have been able to pee in a loo established just for them. Ahem. Top of the Paddy’s Day to you.
Milan’s oldest? Maybe. Ristorante Boeucc, since 1696.
