Vintage 1940’s MENU Lew Tendler’s Bar & Restaurant PHILADELPHIA Jewish Boxer

Vintage 1940’s MENU

Lew Tendler’s Bar & Restaurant

227-229 South Broad St.

PHILADELPHIA

Owned by Jewish Boxer

Measures 14” x 11” closed.

Folds open from center into larger section and smaller section to reveal dinner menu.

Photo and info on back.

Some history:

“A certain type of restaurant once occupied the northeast corner of Broad and Locust streets—the kind of place you can’t find in Philadelphia, or any other historic American city, anymore. It was a pub where mobsters, athletes, and writers gathered—where working-class men ate and drank alongside the city’s power players.” “Lew “Lefty” Tendler was a Philadelphia Jewish lightweight who twice fought Benny Leonard for the title and twice lost. He retired in 1928, saying, “I don’t want to wind up without a dime the way so many other fighters have.” In 1932, he opened up a restaurant next to Horn and Hardart’s, across from the Academy of Music, the old opera hall.”

“Lew Tendler moved from Philadelphia to the Jersey shore in 1960 and leased the Broad Street restaurant to his nephew Pinky. In the summer of 1970 they began shutting it down”

CONDITION:

Excellent, vintage pre-owned condition. Some staining, and some 1945 Philadelphia poster stamps stuck to back. See photos for details.

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