Herman P. Schroeder tavern (870 Oliver Street)
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Title
Herman P. Schroeder tavern (870 Oliver Street)
Description
The son of a German immigrant, Herman P. Schroeder came to North Tonawanda in the mid-1890s in the employ of Buffalo Bolt. He first lives in Gratwick, and later moves to 870 Oliver Street (near the entrance to the Buffalo Bolt plant). He opens a tavern there about 1902, operating it until Prohibition. In the 1920s he opens an ice cream and candy store across from the Oliver / Avondale Theater at the corner of Robinson and Oliver.
Items
The Schroeder Family, typed recollection (Loretta Schroeder-Parske, 1996).htm
Loretta Schroeder describes the Oliver Street saloon her father ran just outside the gates of Buffalo Bolt, on the northwest corner of East and…
