Slide open the vintage steel doors and you’ll ask yourself,
“where the heck am I ?!”
Belly up to Chicago’s original Black Orchid Jazz Club bar for a vintage hand made cocktail and rest your elbows where d’ boys once did…Old Blue Eyes, Sammy & Dean…What the duce?! Come and Git it… Order delicious “trailer-made” grub like grandma used to feed ya’ from “Duchess”, our 1968 Streamline camper …what the
duce?! Grab a slice of heaven or a pie on the fly at the bar we reclaimed from The Emmett House in Waverley Ohio. Thomas Edison’s kid built the joint as a stop over for weary, thirsty traveling salesmen. Sit where they sat and indulge in local famous Rock Springs Cafe Pies…what the duce?! Shake it up baby at our 1912 Chicago drug store soda fountain, featuring Superstition Farms Fresh Made Ice Cream…all mixed up by “Pops”, downtown’s coolest jerk. …what the duce?! Rummage through R & R Surplus; reclaimed-reissued swag from the ever so stylish generations that wore em’…
Hang out in the original bleachers from Phoenix’s St. Mary’s high school watchin’ the classics…think Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kramden & Norton, Wally & Beaver …what the duce?! Re-learn the art of old school fitness at South Central Gym…train like they used to…chin ups, push ups, skip rope, hit the bag… then grab a ringside seat for Phoenix’s coolest concerts, shows, fights, even wedding ceremonies…what the duce?! What the duce?…it is what it was … a 1928 warehouse that once anchored a bustling produce district by day… the notorious deuce by night… dice, vice, jazz and other not so good clean fun. Same corner… about a century later …prohibition meets produce …again … and we’re tippin’ our hats to both!
