Thus it’s not a bad time to post this ad for Sutter’s and its recently installed air conditioning system. The ad appeared in the Lorain Journal on July 10, 1941 and provides a nice photo of the inside of the store.
I’ve written about Sutter’s before (here), and how for a time there were multiple locations. The one shown in the above ad, located at 636 Broadway next to the Tivoli, was originally Sutter’s Nut Shop, and was the place to go for an ice cream sundae. Sutter’s Sandwich Shop was on the other side of the street with a 525 Broadway address.
I’m guessing that it was an occupational necessity for a place that served ice cream to be air conditioned. And according to the ad, it was “installed and engineered" by Reddy Kilowatt’s employer: Ohio Public Service Company, which was conveniently located nearby at Broadway and Sixth.
Anyway, I like the preponderance of penguins in the Sutter’s ad, driving home that antarctic air theme.
