City Directories and History: 1908 – Springstein Band, 1940 – F.B. Electric Company, 1958 – Ted’s Jewelry, 1978 – Chester Building and Loan, 1986 – Gene’s Restaurant
Continuous corbel brick cornice, two buildings, four bays each, are featured in this circa 1910 structure. Occupied by Gene’s restaurant presently. Left half appears first on 1910 Sanborn map as a butcher shop, the right half as an auto sales and supplies.
The newspaper wrote the following when Gene Kendrick began his restaurant, [Gene Kendrick of Chester has purchased the buildings at 156 Gadsden St., that formerly housed Chester Savings and Loan and Jones Barber Shop. Another business, New York Fashion, is presently located in part of Kendrick’s restaurant. That business will soon be moving to the Saluda Square shopping center.
Kendrick hopes to have Gene’s Restaurant open by April 15. For five year, he has operated a restaurant in Great Falls by the same name. He closed that business in December, citing the economy and a desire to move to Chester, where he lives.
A native of Lockhart, Kendricks came to Chester when he retired from the U.S. Air Force in in 1971. For the last eleven of his twenty-four service years, he was a food services superintendent. He, his wife Ann, and daughter, Carolyn will operate the business, which he said would employ nine people. “We’ll open early for breakfast and stay open through dinner if the business warrants it. The menu will be home-style meals and a Sunday buffet.” In addition to complete interior renovations to the downtown building, he is also putting on a new roof, and said he will improve the rear of the building, which faces the parking lot on Hudson.]
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