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Old Posted May 4, 2011, 12:44 AM
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Western Avenue vintage eats

I thought we'd covered the Nikabob and El Cholo at some point, but danged if I can find them on a search of the thread...

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The Nikabob at 875 S. Western was named for a fella named Nick and Bob Cobb of the Derby.
Sometime in the '30s it became the H.C. Stevens Nikabob Cafe, and after that was run by the
Adelman brothers. The building, gone now, was supposedly by Morgan, Walls & Clements, which
is a good start for any building... but how about this later interior renovation?

Manitoba Museum of Fine Arts


And then there was--and is--El Cholo, still at 1121 S. Western:
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1931

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1937

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1952

Which morphed into
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Next door, a surviving bungalow, which once might have been Wally Fay's office:
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