Antique German Beer Stein 22” 5 L Pewter Bowling Mission Inn Landmark St. Louis

Description: I bought this stein at an antique store years ago because the theme is bowling (Auf der kegelbahn) and my parents owned a bowlling alley. It still has the index card inside where the shopowner listed the provenance, which is in the Midwest, in St. Louis. I did some research about the Mission Inn located at Grand and Magnolia avenues, through the Landmark Association. Here's some historical information about the owner of the beer stein, Carl Anschuetz and his purchase of the Mission Inn. "In 1911 the property was sold or the hefty sum of $55,000 to restaurateur Carl Anschuetz, who already operated Anschuetz’ Restaurant (more recently known as “Pelican’s Restaurant”) a few doors further north on the corner of Grand and Shenandoah. Anschuetz lived nearby at 3501 Sidney Street (extant) and was something of a culinary celebrity in St. Louis at the time. According to his obituary in the Post Dispatch he came to St. Louis from Germany in 1881 and went to work at Tony Faust’s Oyster House downtown. He eventually became the general manager of Faust’s before striking out on his own with the eponymous “Carl Anschuetz Restaurant” at Grand and Shenandoah, which he operated from 1895 until 1925. After taking over Auer’s Garden, Anschuetz rebranded it “The Mission Inn” and embarked upon a remodeling effort that was designed to turn the place into “a reproduction of an old Spanish Mission in California.” - Landmark Association Newsletter, Volume 51 Issue 3 In 1913, the beer garden area was electrified and equipped with ornamental light stands and stage lighting to facilitate nighttime concerts and other entertainments. Since the remodel of the building into a beer garden was completed in 1925 (as shown by city permits), I would place its age to 1920s minimum. Due to prohibition, Anschuetz couldn't recover after prohibition enforcement agents discovered he was serving liquor in teapots, and so gave up. The business was briefly operated by the Pirone family (another line of St. Louis restaurateurs) before the entire complex was demolished in 1937 and replaced with an A&P supermarket. The bottom is marked “Germany” which dates the stein to before WWII and Carl Anschueta passed away in 1935.

Price: 389 USD

Location: Huntington Beach, California

End Time: 2024-12-18T20:21:41.000Z

Shipping Cost: 45 USD