Purchase Price $128,000
5,740 sqft retail building with 3 bedroom apartment upstairs
Well established business with strong customer base. Exceptional patronage for lunch and happy hours. Dependable staff. Very clean. Very large 3-bedroom apartment upstairs is occupied (month-to-moth) by dependable tenants. Spacious, private outdoor area with horseshoe pits and covered patio. Three-car garage with storage room. Acme Pool and Dart league teams every night except Friday.
Contact: Adam Stein with Stein & Summers Real Estate, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.
Call: 816-232-2000
History & Gallery
In 1914, Lawrence Scanlan was a 22-year old, newlywed with big dreams. He and his new wife Elizabeth Dietsch opened Scanlan Hardware at 238 Illinois Avenue. Unfortunately, the dream died young for this family. In 1918, Lawrence contracted the Spanish Flu and died at St. Joseph’s Hospital leaving behind Elizabeth and three young children (the youngest only 6 weeks old).
Realizing that the widow would need support, Elizabeth’s brother Louis Dietsch took over the business and ran it from 1918 to 1966. Louis was a true Southsider. He was a charter member of the South Side Rotary Club and was instrumental (pun intended) in setting up their glee club.
Louis sold the business in 1966 and it continued under the original name for another 20 years. It then was sold to Vernon Wright who ran Pee Wee’s Cue & Brew in the building for 15 years. In 2001 it became Pop’s Place, a beloved neighborhood bar!
