Edward G. Danziger

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1939 Edward Danziger opens a candy kitchen on Franklin Street Edward G. Danziger, a candy maker whose family name was well known in Vienna, opened a candy kitchen with a tea-and-coffee room in the Munch building on Franklin Street, where Gooch's restaurant had been. He sold candy and ice cream with fresh fruit and planned to add Viennese and Turkish coffee, tea and pastries. The family business later included Danziger's Old World Gift Shop.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 22, 1939, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 28, 1939, p. 1; Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomin; Open Orange: Danziger's Old World Candy Shop / Danziger's Old World Restaurant / Danziger's Old World Gift Shop
2. June 1944 Mrs. E. G. Danziger buys Henrietta Smedes's house on Hillsborough Street The Danzigers, Austrian refugees whose candy and pastry shop was on Franklin Street, bought the 1919 house at 211 Hillsborough Street from Henrietta Smedes, who had retired from the university staff. That September they advertised their Forest Hills house for sale.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 9, 1944, p. 1 · Also: National Register, Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1944, p. 3
3. 1948 Ted Danziger opens the Rathskeller in the basement of his father's candy shop Edward Danziger's son Ted opened the Rathskeller in the basement of the Danziger candy store on Franklin Street. The Hall of Fame credits it with being the first local restaurant to serve draft beer.Search the index · Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Edward and Theodore Danziger
4. December 26, 1952 Mrs. Edward G. Danziger of Danziger's Candy Kitchen dies Mrs. Edward G. Danziger, 57, who with her husband ran Danziger's Candy Kitchen and Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, died of a heart attack in New York City on December 26, 1952. Her funeral was held at the Chapel Hill Methodist Church on December 28.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 1, 1953, p. 1
5. 1972 Restaurateur Edward "Papa D" Danziger is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Edward "Papa D" Danziger (1893-1972), whose Chapel Hill restaurants fed generations of students, was buried in the cemetery. People: Edward G. DanzigerSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23