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Charlie’s Club (1942-1972), 2049 Mead Street, was supposed to have been the first place in Racine to serve pizza. I started doing research on Charlie’s Club and found these amazing pictures by Matt Binetti<\/a>. If someone ever made a book about the Italian immigrants who settled in Lakeside, near Mead Street and Racine Street, I would buy it instantly.<\/p>\n

Update, 11\/27\/2016: According to newspaperarchive.com, Nilo’s on 16th Street started advertising pizza in 1947, and Charley’s Club started advertising pizza in 1948.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: unknown, Frank Casciaro, unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nick & Edith Binetti’s wedding party; photo taken outside of Charles’ Tavern. Nick and Edith (Christiano) Benetti were married on February 14, 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Charlie’s Club advertisement from 1954 Racine phonebook<\/p><\/div>\n

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Charlie’s Club “13”, Racine Journal Times, 6\/27\/1941<\/p><\/div>\n

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Charlies Club on Mead Street … looks like date on photo says March 1970<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Charlie’s Club token from Doug Chaussee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Charlie’s Club, June 1969 from Doug Chaussee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie’s Club (1942-1972), 2049 Mead Street, was supposed to have been the first place in Racine to serve pizza. I started doing research on Charlie’s Club and found these amazing pictures by Matt Binetti. If someone ever made a book about the Italian immigrants who settled in Lakeside, near Mead Street and Racine Street, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1932","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1932\/revisions\/5048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}