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[[File:grandohbuffet.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Photo courtesy: Paul Hemmer and https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-know-you-grew-up-in-Dubuque-Iowa-if-you-remember/130170407077838]]GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUFFET. The ''Dubuque City Directory'' of 1909 gave the address of this business as 289 8th. | [[File:grandohbuffet.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Photo courtesy: Paul Hemmer and https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-know-you-grew-up-in-Dubuque-Iowa-if-you-remember/130170407077838]] | ||
[[File:ohbuffet.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Match safe. Once stocked with matches, the "safe" held them until one match was pulled out to use. The "safe" then reclosed]]GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUFFET. The license to operate a tavern was much higher than a restaurant, so the idea of operating a "buffet" allowed the sale of liquor with food at less cost. | |||
The ''Dubuque City Directory'' of 1909 gave the address of this business as 289 8th. | |||
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[[Category: Bar]] | [[Category: Bar]] | ||
Revision as of 03:59, 26 August 2015
Photo courtesy: Paul Hemmer and https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-know-you-grew-up-in-Dubuque-Iowa-if-you-remember/130170407077838
GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUFFET. The license to operate a tavern was much higher than a restaurant, so the idea of operating a "buffet" allowed the sale of liquor with food at less cost.
The Dubuque City Directory of 1909 gave the address of this business as 289 8th.