Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor
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| Location | Columbus, Columbus, Indiana, United States |
Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor is a restaurant in Columbus, Indiana.
History
[edit | edit source]The restaurant was founded in 1900 by James, Lewis, and Pete Zaharako, three candymakers from Sparta, Greece, who opened it as a confectionary shop.[1][2][3][4] After visiting the 1904 World's Fair, they added ice cream to their offerings.[1] By the early 1910s, they had added soda fountains, a mahogany backbar, and a 1908 Welte orchestrion.[1][2] By the middle of the century, there was a self-service area.[1]
The restaurant closed in 2006 when the youngest generation of the Zaharako family weren't interested in continuing to run the business.[1] The orchestrion was sold to a California collector.[3]
In 2007, Tony Moravec, a local businessman, purchased and restored the restaurant, including purchasing the orchestrion from the collector who had bought it, at a total cost of $3.5 million and reopened it in 2009.[1][5][6] The family living quarters above the shop were also restored, and Moravec also opened the space next door as a museum of 19th-century soda fountains and mechanical musical instruments.[1][7] As of 2019, the orchestrion was the only one in the country available for the public to hear play.[3] By 2013, the building had been named to the National Register of Historic Places.[8][9]
Moravec died in 2022 and his son took over the business.[5][10]
The restaurant is also known for its Gom Cheese Brr-grr, a type of sloppy joe or loose-meat sandwich with cheese.[6][3][8]
The restaurant was used as the primary set for Robert Moniot's short film The Ice Cream Man about Ernst Cahn, a Jewish ice cream parlor owner in Amsterdam whose arrest sparked the February Strike.[7][11]
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External links
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