MOELLERS' RESTAURANT was on S. Milwaukee Ave. where Le Francais restaurant stands now. Frances and Fred are behind the bar (right) and you also can see slot and pinball machines. The "one-armed bandits" were an important part of the scene in Wheeling until widespread enforcement of gambling laws.

POLISH VILLAGE was a restaurant just south of Wheeling, between Milwaukee Ave. and the Des Plaines River, and was flooded when the river was high. It was built in 1937 by Otto Orlowski, Sr., who owned a Sunday morning Polish hour program on radio station WSBC.












THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT was on the river, just south of the bridge where Milwaukee Ave. crosses it. It became Papa Bouche's Villa Venice, an expensive restaurant with big-name entertainment.

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