Just like the one you posted on Jan. 1, but with a different number over the door. I found that South Pasadena businessman Frederick Schmidt opened a chain of ice cream parlors shaped like ice cream makers. He ended up with 20 locations around LA. The business ended in 1933, when Prohibition ended, and Mr. Schmidt went back to his previous business - the Olympia Brewing Company.
I read that info about the ice cream maker parlors, even the part about the Olympia Brewery.... I'm one of the few that knows about Olympia, as I crewed on the sub USS Olympia, we got to visit our namesake city, and pull the sub into the downtown pier, visit the governors mansion, the capital bldg, and the Olympia Brewery! It's long ago shut down. Too many small breweries popped up in nearby Seattle, and the whole microbrewery craze of the past couple decades wiped out the old guard of beer companies that really weren't that appealing to the vast majority, and who can't charge 10 dollars a bottle, like microbreweries get, for some insane reason
Just like the one you posted on Jan. 1, but with a different number over the door. I found that South Pasadena businessman Frederick Schmidt opened a chain of ice cream parlors shaped like ice cream makers. He ended up with 20 locations around LA. The business ended in 1933, when Prohibition ended, and Mr. Schmidt went back to his previous business - the Olympia Brewing Company.
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I read that info about the ice cream maker parlors, even the part about the Olympia Brewery.... I'm one of the few that knows about Olympia, as I crewed on the sub USS Olympia, we got to visit our namesake city, and pull the sub into the downtown pier, visit the governors mansion, the capital bldg, and the Olympia Brewery!
DeleteIt's long ago shut down. Too many small breweries popped up in nearby Seattle, and the whole microbrewery craze of the past couple decades wiped out the old guard of beer companies that really weren't that appealing to the vast majority, and who can't charge 10 dollars a bottle, like microbreweries get, for some insane reason
OMG, i didn't remember posting that one, only a week ago. Well, that was a 100 posts ago
Deleteyou're the only one that noticed! Huh! Compliments to you!
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