Austin gunselmans fairview
Austin gunselmans fairview
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Comfort is at the Heart of Gunselman's Tavern's Latest Chapter After a Century of Old-Fashioned Barroom Lore
In the 1930s, Henry Gunselman worked as a whiskey salesman for the Weideman Co.
When the owners of the Pastime Cafe in Fairview Park couldn't settle up, they were forced to sign over their business. That colorful origin story may or may not be true, confesses owner Joseph McDonough, but that doesn't change the fact that this "seven-sided brick building" at the corner of Lorain and West 215th Street has enjoyed many vivid episodes throughout its nearly 100-year existence.
The latest chapter kicked off a couple years ago when McDonough, David Grace and John Caine purchased the iconic corner bar.
The trio, pals since sprouts growing up in this very neighborhood, had decided to go into the hospitality business together. After scouring the market, kicking the tires of numerous big, pricy downtown spots, the partners found themselves in the strangest of places: right back where