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Edward G. Danziger

Edward Danziger, a Viennese confectioner who emigrated in 1939, opened Danziger's Old World Candy Shop on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, which grew into a restaurant and gift shop. The Danzigers advocated integration during segregation and hired African Americans for prominent positions.

Source: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Edward and Theodore Danziger

1893–1972 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Edward G. Danziger. 1 held at OCPL →

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By Edward G. Danziger

What I've learned about public relations

Danziger, Edward G., 1893-1972 · 1951 · Ahrens Pub. Co.

Edward G. Danziger, who ran Danziger's Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, sets out what he had learned about public relations in the restaurant trade. The article was detached from the January 1951 issue of Restaurant Management and published in New York by Ahrens.

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About Edward G. Danziger

Danziger's: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1950

Four photographs of Danziger's, dated 1950 to 1977: an advertisement and sign, Eleanor Roosevelt inside with Charles Long, Anne Deal, John Sanders and William Geer, owner Edward Danziger with staff in the gift shop, and the Old World Gift Shop storefront.

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CH Historical Society

Danziger, Edward: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1914

Edward Danziger poses in Army uniform in a 1914 photograph, one of the Chapel Hill portraits in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC BIO DANZIGER DAN Papa D: A Saga of Love and Cooking Danziger, Edward G. · 1967

    Edward G. Danziger's memoir of love and cooking, published by J. F. Blair in 1967. Danziger (1893 to 1972) ran Danziger's Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, and the book tells his life as a restaurateur in the town.

Life and Orange County connections

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  1. 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 · DigitalNC: 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. 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 · DigitalNC: 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. 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. 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

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