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- My favorite hamburger place in Racine.

Owners of the Kewpee from 1957 to 1963, Allen (Spec) and Emily Durkee. Spec was actually an original employee when the Kewpee first opened in 1926. He bought the Kewpee from the estate of Walter Block who owned it from 1930 to 1957 when he died. Spec died in December of 1963 and his wife asked her brother, Richard Kristopeit, to manage it for her.
Love the pic of my Aunt Em and uncle Spec. Our whole family worked there at one time or another. I remember when Sandy’s was there my dad would bring home a cardboard refrigerator box and we used it as a fort…