Next, the centennial

This article was published on 02.16.17

Locals crowded around Casale family matriarch Inez Casale Stempeck to bestow hugs and take selfies. Her 90th birthday celebration was sold out at a Sparks Nugget ballroom last weekend. She was born in 1927 at the Coney Island Dairy, which was located between the Nugget and the later site of the family’s Halfway Club on Fourth Street. What is now a bar and restaurant—and a local fixture—started out as a produce stand in the late 1930s, making it one of the state’s oldest businesses.

Locals crowded around Casale family matriarch Inez Casale Stempeck to bestow hugs and take selfies. Her 90th birthday celebration was sold out at a Sparks Nugget ballroom last weekend. She was born in 1927 at the Coney Island Dairy, which was located between the Nugget and the later site of the family’s Halfway Club on Fourth Street. What is now a bar and restaurant—and a local fixture—started out as a produce stand in the late 1930s, making it one of the state’s oldest businesses.

PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

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