The pub is still open today and has fantastic views from its Beer garden.
While snarking out, they meet the usual assortment of oddballs, such as Ms. Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews, a.k.a. Rat, and places, from Blueberry Park to Lower North Aufzoo Street to Beanbender's Beer Garden.
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With a soundtrack of the Mungo Jerry song "In the Summertime" (one of the lines of which is "Have a drink, have a drive..."), a group of friends are drinking in the beer garden of a pub on a warm summer's evening.
His restaurant and beer garden occupied the site where the Luna Park owned by Central Amusements International currently sits (between Jones Walk and West 10th Street).
His father emigrated at age 20 from Stuttgart in Germany to Chicago, founded there with his brother Emil Eitel the Bismarck Hotel Co., to which belonged the Bismarck Hotel and the large beer garden Marigold Gardens.
After the restaurant and beer garden went out of business in 1968, allegedly over a waitress wearing a see-through blouse, Mrs. Jay's moved two doors south and reopened a short time thereafter.