[TUHS] Fred Grampp
Tomasz Rola
rtomek at ceti.pl
Wed Mar 17 13:46:31 AEST 2021
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:46:42PM -0400, Brian Walden wrote:
[...]
> Which had no information on Topper, but had had this paragraph in it's Singer
> section on page 28 --
>
> Boys earned money "rushing the growler" at lunchtime at the Singer plant.
> German workers lowered their covered beer pails, called growlers, on ropes
> to the boys waiting below. They earned a nickel by filling them with beer
> at Grampp's saloon on Trumbull St. One of these boys was Thomas Dunn who
> later became a long term Mayor. In the early 1920s Frederick Grampp went
> into the hardware business at the corner of Elizabeth Ave. and Reid St.
Wow, what a find, really.
I suppose the move from saloon business onto the hardware business was
caused by Prohibition? Interesting side-effect.
"Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional
ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of
alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933."
[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
]
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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