Restaurant
The Berghoff Restaurant
17 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Century-old wood-paneled tavern where a brass foot rail once marked an all-day, all-male stand-up bar.
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.
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