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Whatever happened to ... the Grabeteria?

Diners read newspapers posted on the walls, paid on the honor system and for years, dodged women.

Photo courtesy of the Special Collections Department at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. In a circa 1925 image created for the Western Confectioner, a clerk at the Grabeteria is selling fruit to William M. McConakay, manager of the McConakay Jewelry Co. of Salt Lake City. Art Davis, manager of the Grabeteria, is seen in the doorway, with the short apron.