Niederstein's Restaurant - last day Feb. 5 2005

After some one hundred fifty years of continuous operation, Niederstein's Restaurant closed its doors forever at the end of this day, Feb. 5, 2005. I made my first visit in 1956, before renovation changed the antique, traditional character of the building, its interior, and its furnishings. An Arby's eats joint now stands on this sacred plot. (To take these photos, I used a small Sony P150 digicam, featuring a 7MP sensor. It was the first digicam to offer that resolution, which permitted you to make 8x10 prints at 300 dpi.)