Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Sutter’s Ad – July 10, 1941

Air conditioning – the world’s greatest invention (in my opinion) – has been on my mind a lot lately, especially after the horrendous heat wave we just endured over the last week.

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.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 23, 2019 at 7:54 AM

    Gee and to think we survived without it and a lot of other things back then.

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  2. BusterJuly 23, 2019 at 10:34 AM

    If the place was an ice cream parlor, why did they call it a nut house?

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  3. Dan BradyJuly 23, 2019 at 11:32 AM

    I'm guessing that since Sutter's was next door to the movie theater, it started out selling fresh roasted nuts to the theater patrons waiting in line, and then dropped it from their name when they added the ice cream bar.

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  4. -Alan D HopewellJuly 23, 2019 at 11:53 AM

    When did the Sutter's by the Tivoli close?

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  5. Dan BradyJuly 23, 2019 at 6:35 PM

    Based on research I did for the other post, it looks like around 1957 the business (but not building ownership) changed hands and became Firestone’s Sandwich Shop. Sutter’s Sandwich Shop kept right on going until around 1980.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 24, 2019 at 9:40 AM

    I too loved Sutter's...great open face roast beef sandwich on a winter day after a movie at the "Ohio". Speaking of the "Nut House" wasn't there a tiny nut store on the east side of Bdwy near the Palace and Ohio theaters? If my memory is correct it was just a walk-up window and couldn't have been more than 10" wide. Todd

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  7. Dan BradyJuly 24, 2019 at 10:02 AM

    Sounds like Scotty's!

    https://danielebrady.blogspot.com/2016/07/scottys-nut-shop.html

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