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| White Castle Covington #1 825 Madison Opened May 1, 1930 |
White Castle Covington #2 441 Pike Street 5 Stools inside Opened in 1930 |
White Castle Covington #3 12th & Madison July 28, 1960- September 17, 2007 |
Whitey's, 1952, |
| Proving yet again there can be a very fine line between history and nostalgia . . . | |||
Kentucky Post, March 1, 1930
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| Thomas R. Cody's Billiard Room |
Thomas R. Cody's Dining Room |
Thomas R. Cody's Grill Room |
Thomas R. Cody's Cafe, Covington |
More about Cody's, which was at Third and Scott, from 1914, is here.
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| Harry Nieman's, Cafe, 1601 Holman, c. 1910 from a Facebook post by Ron Laws, whose grandfather, Oscar Rischmann, is above the x |
Jacob Giesen's Cafe Pike & Railroad |
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| Geiser's Restaurant and Sample Room | ||
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| Crolley's Crossing, 1910. Sherman Crolley, proprietor., 7 Park Place | ||
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| August Huerkamp's Saloon, 1908, 1008 Lee Street |
Schoer & Brokamp's 1918 Madison Avenue |
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| “That Neat Little Place” Richard J. Dibowski's at 6 Pike Street |
Dibowski's, 1918 | Dibowski's Good for 10 cents |
Spoody's Cafe, in the 1913 flood, Pike Street at Willow
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| Henry Jugas' 9th and Philadelphia From a Facebook post by Doug Goessling |
Henry Jugas' |
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| Henry Jugas took pride in being first every year to renew his tavern license: License #1 | ||
| His obituary says he operated his tavern for over 50 years | ||
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| Lang's 623 Madison Avenue, Covington |
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Frisch's
There were two Kenton County Frisch's locations at the time of these menus:
801 Madison and 2498 Dixie in South Fort Mitchell
Lloyd's
605 Madison, Covington
Carol Sutherland Price, writing about
Lloyd's on Facebook: “I worked there and it sure
made me pay attention to what goes on behind the scenes when I eat out.”
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| Lily's Chocolate Shop, at 832 Madison | ||
| Kenton County Tavern Rates | |
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| Meals, each | 40 cts |
| Lodging | 40 cts |
| Common whiskey, per drink | 05 cts |
| All Other Whiskey, per drink | 10 cts |
| Brandy, rum, gin, wine, etc | 15 cts |
| Grain or feed, per gallon | 25 cts |
| Horses, per night, hay or grain | 40 cts |
| Pasturage, per day | 10 cts |
From the Covington Daily Commonwealth, April 24, 1883
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| Pat O'Donnell's Sample Room 34 Pike Street |
Hill's Cafe, 1914 | The Flatiron Cafe southwest corner of 9th and Pike |
Main Street Cafe
Owned by Paul Bertsch and Carl Stegman
(and that's a 1951 Ford Victoria to the left)
from a Todd Bertsch post on Facebook
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| The Mike Fink, 1973 | The Mike Fink, 1981 |
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The Steam Towboat John W. Hubbard |
The Mike Fink, March 22, 1981 |
Mike Fink | |
| Here's the Hubbard's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps. | |||
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| The Mike Fink offers a “man-sized t-bone.” From a Facebook post by Michael Autry |
Not exactly a restaurant, but Woolworth's on Madison had a lunch counter. |
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| Represented to us as somewhere in Covington. Could be. |
Kentucky Club, 1950, 627 Scott | The Phoenix, Pike at Russell | |
Covington Journal, February 16, 1849
Old Southern Barbeque
214 Scott
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| This is John F. Moeller in his saloon at 640 Scott, c. 1918. But prohibition hit, and by 1920 he was selling soft drinks, and by 1923, he's in the bakery business on Madison. Thanks to Jerry Kasselmann for the pic. |
Winters Restaurant. You may
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| Frisch's Menu | Covington Chili From a Facebook post by Covington Chili |
Jake's From a Facebook post by Larry Douglas |
The owners of Herb and Thelma's have created a podcast with episodes of the business' history at this site.
“As an evidence of the effect which the reform movement is producing in Covington,
the Cornucopia, the oldest drinking saloon in the city, closed it's doors”
from the Courier-Journal, May 14, 1869
