The very first
topic on this blog (almost a year ago) concerned
Mutt & Jeff's (one of my favorite restaurants) and how it used to be the
Sherwood Inn. I followed that up a few days later with a second
entry noting that before it was the Sherwood Inn, it was the
Airport Tavern beginning around 1942.
Well, it took almost a year, but I can now add another nugget of information to the history of Mutt & Jeff's building. I discovered that the 3700 Oberlin Avenue address first showed up in the city directory in 1940 as a place where tourists could rent a room for the night.
(See city directory entry at left.) It kind of makes sense, since at time there wasn't much on Oberlin Avenue in that neck of the woods, and besides, it was outside Lorain city limits. (The 3650 Oberlin Avenue address disappeared from the directory by the time that the Airport Tavern was in business, leaving just the tavern and the
farmhouse on Oberlin Avenue near the city limits.
4 comments:
Somewhere in my mom's recipe collection, I have a recipe for Airport Tavern's salad dressing - will have to search the family archives and post it if I can find it...
Bill
Hi Bill!
Thanks for the comment! Hope you find the recipe, it would be nice to keep a little part of the Airport Tavern (as well as old Lorain) "alive."
Dan
Airport Tavern Dressing
3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 cup vinegar; 3/4 cup oil; 1 tsp paprika; 1 tsp salt; 1tsp dry mustard; 1 onion; 1 clove garlic; 1 can tomato soup.
Mix all ingredients together in food processor.
Originally you let it sit overnight to flavor and then strained the onion and garlic before serving.
Thanks for posting that, Bev! I appreciate it! I'm going to try that sometime!
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