Restaurant
The Berghoff Restaurant
Century-old wood-paneled tavern where a brass foot rail once marked an all-day, all-male stand-up bar.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago centers on February 1969, when seven members of the National Organization for Women, including Gloria Steinem, walked up to a bar that had refused to serve women for seven decades. It traces that stand-up rail back to the 1890s, when it served workingmen a quick beer and a hard-boiled egg between shifts, and to the restaurant's Prohibition-era Liquor License Number One. Listen for how the staff chose to respond when the order finally came in.
This audio guide was created using AI.