Good Eats, Good Neighbors, Good Times. No ties, tight shoes, and no bad attitude.
Our collection of rooms was originaly built in 1922 as three different buildings. The Moe & Johnny's big bar room was a Kroger grocery store. the family dining room was a Pure Gas Station and the Coffee House a Dry Cleaner. The Grocery Store changed into a Restaurant Shortly after WWII. Since that time there has been a Restaurant or Neighborhood Bar on this corner almost without interruption. The most recent remodel was completed in the summer of 2001 and the pictorial of that re-model is on the south wall.
If you are seated in the Family Dining Room the windowsare the old garage doors. The ceilings are some fourteen feet high because the station had one of the first hydraulic lifts and the height was needed to life cars for service. On the East wall is a porcelain gas pump cover. WE found this artifact ina card box stored in the rafters.
If you are in the coffeehouse please look around what was originally a Dry Cleaners and enjoy this bit of history. The booth seats are from the original downtown King Coal Restaurant. The stained glass windows are from one of the first Laughner's Cafeterias built after WWII. The tabletops are from the TEller's Cage Room on the top of the Indiana National Bank. The two bar tops are made from the volley ball floor useds in the 1987 Pan-Am Games. |