Identifier	dallas006.jpg
Title	George Dallas
Subject	Dallas, George Restaurateurs Restaurants Restaurant workers Great Depression Thanksgiving Charity Community service
Description	Beginning in 1924 and well through the Great Depression years, successful Cleveland restaurateur, George Dallas, provided a free Thanksgiving meal to thousands of unfortunate Clevelanders who were facing hard times. Dubbed the "Samaritan of West 3rd" and the "Thanksgiving Santa Claus" by the Plain Dealer, Dallas, his wife, Alma, and his daughter, Marie, would arrive at their restaurant at 1363 W. 3rd Street and would begin preparing for the presentation of the thousands of boxes containing sandwiches, dessert, fruit and coffee. In 1929, Dallas' "grocery list" for all of the meal boxes he made that year included 200 lbs. of bologna, 210 lbs. of special sausage, 350 lbs. of goose liver, 112 fresh hams, 96 turkeys, 16 barrels of apples, 22 barrels of oranges, 1,200 loaves of bread, and 2,000 cakes. The number of people he served grew each year until in 1932, Dallas fed 10,000 people in Public Hall.
Location Depicted	Downtown (Cleveland, Ohio) Cleveland (Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1940-11-22
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	7 x 9 in.
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Language	English
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press (PH2000.000PRE)
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Further Reading	http://blog.ulib.csuohio.edu/showtopic.php?thread=570

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