July 23, 2007. Jahn's, on 117th Street off Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill, is 100 years old this year. I paid them my first visit in 1955. It seems hardly to have changed since then. Update -- Jahn's closed on the Saturday after Thanksgiving! The Jahn's in Jackson Heights, Queens, is the only one left now.
The ornate cornice is original. Although it doesn't show in the photo, the woodwork just above the dado (which means the paneling that goes from the floor up to a little above the tabletops) -- the woodwork is deeply and universally adorned with the accumulated carvings and scratches of generations of patrons. "George Bernard Shaw loves Ellen Terry," etc.
The ornate cornice is original. Although it doesn't show in the photo, the woodwork just above the dado (which means the paneling that goes from the floor up to a little above the tabletops) -- the woodwork is deeply and universally adorned with the accumulated carvings and scratches of generations of patrons. "George Bernard Shaw loves Ellen Terry," etc.
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