Chesapeake Restaurant (1939)

ID: 840 ~ Source: BG&E Collection, Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE.12818 ~ Creator: Baltimore Gas & Electric Company ~ Date: 1939 November 27
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Exterior view of the Chesapeake Restaurant.

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By Nathan Dennies
In 1936, Sidney Friedman was riding a train to Baltimore and carrying a charcoal grill. Earlier that week, Friedman had dined at Ray's Steak House in Chicago and ate his very first charcoal-grilled…