Our
collection of rooms was originaly built in 1922 as three different buildings.
The Moe & Johnny's big bar room was a Kroger grocery store. the family dining
room was a Pure Gas Station and the Coffee House a Dry Cleaner. The Grocery
Store changed into a Restaurant Shortly after WWII. Since that time there has
been a Restaurant or Neighborhood Bar on this corner almost without interruption.
The most recent remodel was completed in the summer of 2001 and the pictorial
of that re-model is on the south wall.
If you are seated in the Family Dining Room the windowsare the old garage doors.
The ceilings are some fourteen feet high because the station had one of the
first hydraulic lifts and the height was needed to life cars for service. On
the East wall is a porcelain gas pump cover. WE found this artifact ina card
box stored in the rafters.
If you are in the coffeehouse please look around what was originally a Dry Cleaners
and enjoy this bit of history. The booth seats are from the original downtown
King Coal Restaurant. The stained glass windows are from one of the first Laughner's
Cafeterias built after WWII. The tabletops are from the TEller's Cage Room on
the top of the Indiana National Bank. The two bar tops are made from the volley
ball floor useds in the 1987 Pan-Am Games.
In Accordance with the City-County General Ordinance, effective
March 1, 2006 Moe & Johnny’s will be designated as a Smoking
Establishment, and any persons under the age of 18 may Not enter the establishment.
