Jolly Bar

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Jay:

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for 1907 shows that on the first floor was a store in the building and didn't indicate that at that time it was a hotel. This leads me to wonder if it wasn't a boarding house as opposed to a true hotel.

This makes sense since there were also two large hotels in the immdiate area. The two I mentioned elsewhere.

If it had been a "true hotel" the map would have indicated it.

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6 days a week I had lunch there ... spaghetti and a glass of beer to wash it down. It was awful but cheap.

[john r. swierz]

             Maybe I was thinking of Jays on the west end. I do remember the Boston on the east end

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The one I'm thinking of was near the old Salvation Army on East Federal. I worked at Rendano's.

[john r. swierz]

   I believe the Boston Grill was located where the Bus Terminal now stands.

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During the filming of that show I was working at a store on East Federal across the street from the Boston Grill. They did some filming in that area.

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I might be wrong about the name ... I also recall an Earl Hotel or something like that. The hotel I'm thinking about was located near where the New Park Burlisque was located. It was used in a couple of scenes (the hotel, not the theater).

[john r. swierz]

        I was just with someone on Thursday that has a copy of that segment, and he is going to burn me a copy. Are you 100% sure!  I would be willing to bet a meal at the food court. The fire station was built in 1956 and I think that I can come up with a picture of the station and there wasn't a hotel around it.

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Wrong. it was the old Erie Hotel that was located near where No. 1 Fire Station is today. You are correct about the Struthers Fieldhouse.

[john r. swierz]

    Actually the hotel was located on W. Boardman St.

[john r. swierz]

   Youngstown Hotel, The fight took place at the Struthers Fieldhouse.  I was a 11th grader and the audience was made up of students. Many years later I fought the fire that marked the end for that hotel.

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Speaking of old westend hotels can anyone name the West Federal Street hotel that was featured on Route 66 in which Darren McGaven played a boxer? The show was taped here in Youngstown.

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Thanks for the update Mike.

There was a larger hotel at the corner of West Federal at Spring Commons in the 1900's, and the Pennsylvania RR Passanger Station was across the street. It went under several name changes.

[Mike]

You think more parking spaces?

[Mike]

According to County property records, the 1,660 sq foot building was built in 1900. The current owner purchased it for $55,000 in 1984.