Joe Parker's Saloon, 1913
Year
1913
Joe Parker's Saloon (shown in drawing with the bald Parker tending bar) was located in the Catalpa hotel from 1913 to 1920. It was one of the Courthouse Square saloons earlier immortalized in the college song, "I want to go back to Michigan" ("back to Joe's and the orient, back to some of the money I spent"). The song was written a few years earlier, when the Orient Saloon was on North Main St. opposite the Courthouse and Joe's was a block South. A tile mosaic with the name "Joe" in script can still be seen on the floor inside the former corner entrance to the saloon at Ann St. and Fourth Ave.
Frame location: On North wall of Courthouse
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