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Help with name of restaurant

 

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I can¡¯t for the life of me recall the name of a restaurant that was on the corner of Wilmot and Tanque Verde¡­where Jimmie John¡¯s is today. ?The restaurant was a super club with a live tiger in the bar. ?It was owned by Nemer Ganem and Frieda Ganem.? Can anyone remember the name of the restaurant and the years it was in operation? ?I fairly certain it was there in the early seventies???

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Thanks for any help you can give.

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Valerie
 

I believe it to be "Jester's Court"
 

Was it the Cork and Cleaver?
 

Thanks to everyone who pitched in with the name of the restaurant...and even some interesting facts about Jester's Court.

Now...if I could learn the approximate time the restaurant was open...well, then I wouldn't have any more questions to ask about it..maybe?

Valrie
 

I remember "The Cork and Cleaver" in that area but I don't think that was it.
 

Hi

Jesters Court had a leopard behind the bar.
 

Your are right it was Jesters Court.
 

Jester's Court opened on Tanque Verde in late March or early April of 1969, a little over a year after the Ganem's lost their Barbary Coast to urban renewal, I think the TCC.? The architect and interior designer was David Fraker, who did a lot of townhomes and houses in the Skyline area.? There is a wonderful drawing in the March 29, 1969 issue of the Tucsson Daily Citizen.? Not sure when the restaurant closed, but I don't think the restaurant that came in there, originally Chuy's, now Jimmy John's and Mama's Hawaiian, is the same building.? Carlos, any thoughts on the building?

Catherine
 

The Cork and Cleaver is still there (now called Jonathan's Cork) behind the? building that was the Jester's Court. The Court was owned by mobster Pete Licavoli back in the 70's-80's.

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