Prohibition Poem

Littlechicago

Poem published in local paper in 1923 about my grandfather. NOTE: My grandfather opened Dinty Moores Restaurant in 1936 in Olean, NY (before the 1942 opening in NYC of dinty moores restaurant /stew fame)

as seen in the Olean Evening Herald ~(with original punctuation)

THE RAVIN'

Once upon a midnight dreary
Came two wanderers dry and weary,
weary from their useless searching.
For a place they knew from yore
Gone were all the famous places
Where the gang had often gathered
'Round the bar of Dinty Moore.
"boys" said Dinty
"I am wealthy
and my business is quite healthy.
As I am making quite as much again
as I did in years of yore;
Everything is fine and dandy,
And the system is quite handy,
But I wish that Prohibition
Had started 20 years before."
Quoth the wise old Dinty Moore.

Littlechicago

Dinty Moore was his Black Hand (mob) moniker and not his actual name.