17 Mar
2021
17 Mar
'21
9:46 a.m.
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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Tomasz Rola
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