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- My favorite hamburger place in Racine.
Another view of the exterior
Kewpee exterior
Kewpee burger
Kewpee stools and counter
Kewpee in 1940 phone book
Kewpee in 1954 phone book
Kewpee burger and a Coke
Receipt
Kewpees pic from Carole Bleck
Kewpee, 1930s
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…