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+ | ====== Original Coney Island Restaurant ====== | ||
+ | I remember Dad taking me to the Original Coney Island when I was kid. He knew the owners (probably grew up with the family) and he'd chat while we had our coney islands. | ||
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+ | ===== Coney Island here we come! ===== | ||
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+ | If you were walking down St. Peter Street about lunch time this afternoon, you might have made a rare spotting: the doors were open at the Original Coney Island Tavern. | ||
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+ | She steadfastly refused to elaborate, and closed the door again. But you can click on the picture at left to see the flyer in the window. | ||
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+ | The restaurant is one of St. Paul's most storied landmarks. It's housed in a former Civil War armory on St. Peter street, dating back to 1858. It's been sitting, shuttered, between the Travelers building and the Minnesota Children' | ||
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+ | It was the center of a preservation battle in 1999, when the then-St. Paul Co's. proposed expanding across St. Peter Street, and taking out the original Coney Island building and a slightly younger 19th-century neighbor. The Arvanitis family vowed to restore and reopen the family business, but the reopening has become nothing short of the stuff of legend. | ||
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+ | Trust me: If you do nothing else to mark the occasion of the largest public event in Minnesota history, eating a dog at the Original Coney Island Tavern would be a fitting gesture. | ||
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+ | **Comments (2)** | ||
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+ | Having grown up in St.Paul I can't tell you how much I miss Coney island' | ||
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+ | I'm out in Oregon now but if I had known about them opening I would have flown in!!!!!! | ||
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+ | My father took me to the Coney Island more than 40 yrs ago & telling me of his having eaten there when he was a kid after ice skating across the river. | ||
+ | It was so darn good. I want to take my grandkids there also. Sure wish it would open again. Such legends need to last to infinity. I hope the original family that owned the restaurant know we want them back & somehow make it happen. We definately need these kind of people in our lives. They are the kind that make history. | ||
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