Restaurants
Updated - 06/21/2023
Restaurants or other eating establishments have had a long and varied history in the town of Auburn, PA. Some of these locations were resident favorites or hang-outs, others faded into obscurity relatively quickly. Sadly, none of them seemed to remain long enough. As of the start of 2015 , the only two locations that serve even a limited variety of prepared food on a regular basis were the Auburn Food Market outside of Auburn, and the Staller-Luckenbill VFW Post.
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The Places:
133 Market Street - (Name Unknown) (pre-1920s)
"Auburn Family Restaurant" - (Wayne & Gene Umberger, proprietors)
"Auburn Food Mart" - Route 895 east of Auburn
Borkey, Hannah ("Meals and Tourist Lodging; Phone 3 - 2; Auburn, Pa.") - 133 Market Street
"Clauser's Food Market" (Jim and John Clauser, proprietors) - Route 895 east of Auburn
Dewey's restaurant
"E & T Italian Pizza and Restaurant" - 242 Orchard Street
Ebling's ice cream parlor (Mabel Ebling, proprietor) - 3rd & Elm Streets
"Eckert's Cafe" (Francis Irvin "Irvin" Eckert, proprietor) - 124 Market Street
Eddie's restaurant (Eddie Naftzinger, proprietor) - Market Street
"Harman's Lunch and Ice Cream Parlor"
"Irena's" - 3rd and Orchard Streets
"K & G Subs and Suds" - 242 Orchard Street
Patchett luncheonette (John Patchett, proprietor)- 242 Orchard Street
Reber's ice cream parlor (Calvin "Kelly" H. Reber, proprietor) - Market Street
Reber's restaurant - (Daniel M. Reber, proprietor) (pre-1915) - Pear Alley
"Rissmiller's Sub Shop" - Market Street
Shollenberger's ice cream parlor (William Shollenberger, proprietor) (circa 1920s) - 115 Market Street
Simmons sub shop
Smolak's restaurant (George Smolak, proprietor) - Market Street
"Staller-Luckenbill VFW" - Pine Street
"Staller's Luncheonette" (Leon "Scrappy" Staller, proprietor) - 133 Market St.
"Auburn Family Restaurant" - (Wayne & Gene Umberger, proprietors)
"Auburn Food Mart" - Route 895 east of Auburn
Borkey, Hannah ("Meals and Tourist Lodging; Phone 3 - 2; Auburn, Pa.") - 133 Market Street
"Clauser's Food Market" (Jim and John Clauser, proprietors) - Route 895 east of Auburn
Dewey's restaurant
"E & T Italian Pizza and Restaurant" - 242 Orchard Street
Ebling's ice cream parlor (Mabel Ebling, proprietor) - 3rd & Elm Streets
"Eckert's Cafe" (Francis Irvin "Irvin" Eckert, proprietor) - 124 Market Street
Eddie's restaurant (Eddie Naftzinger, proprietor) - Market Street
"Harman's Lunch and Ice Cream Parlor"
"Irena's" - 3rd and Orchard Streets
"K & G Subs and Suds" - 242 Orchard Street
Patchett luncheonette (John Patchett, proprietor)- 242 Orchard Street
Reber's ice cream parlor (Calvin "Kelly" H. Reber, proprietor) - Market Street
Reber's restaurant - (Daniel M. Reber, proprietor) (pre-1915) - Pear Alley
"Rissmiller's Sub Shop" - Market Street
Shollenberger's ice cream parlor (William Shollenberger, proprietor) (circa 1920s) - 115 Market Street
Simmons sub shop
Smolak's restaurant (George Smolak, proprietor) - Market Street
"Staller-Luckenbill VFW" - Pine Street
"Staller's Luncheonette" (Leon "Scrappy" Staller, proprietor) - 133 Market St.
The Pictures:
133 Market Street (Name unknown) -
The name of this combination restaurant and grocery store is currently unknown. The building was built in 1885 and may have originally served as a lodge for one of the social organizations; however, an early occupant of the building was this unidentified restaurant. After the restaurant, the building was occupied by Auburn's first bank - the First National Bank of Auburn. |
Eddie's restaurant -
Eddie's restaurant was a popular place for kids because it was a close location to get candy. |
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Reber' restaurant -
The "History of Auburn" booklet published in 1934 mentions that a "bakery was started by Daniel Reber but it was not maintained many years. Mr. Reber also had a restaurant where Jacob Clauser now (in 1934) has his paint shop*." *NOTE: The "paint shop" was a small structure located behind the main residence of the property located at 304 Market Street, Auburn, PA. An undated and non-sourced news snippet titled "Some of Auburn's Old People" reads: "Daniel M. Reber, the baker and confectioner, who was stricken with paralysis over a year ago is gradually growing weaker and may live but a short time. He is entering his 87th year." Whether this article's mention of Daniel's age is accurate is uncertain. The website findagrave.com lists a total of five"Daniel Reber"s of this era that are interred within Schuylkill County, PA, and whose name might match. Four of them do not list a middle initial but a single listing does have a middle initial of "M"...as cited in the news snippet above. Assuming the age cited for the baker nearing his death is fairly accurate, there was only a single listing which even reached the age range of being in their eighties when they passed...and that one was the individual with the middle initial of "M". Unfortunately, he was not "87" years old as cited above but he was 84 years of age. *****************************************************Daniel M. Reber was born in Schuylkill County on 02/13/1807. He was the son of Georg (without an "e") Reber (Sr.?) and Elizabeth Miller Reber. He was a brother of Andreas Reber, Catharine Reber Fahl, Elizabeth Reber Berkheiser, George Reber (Jr.?), Isaac Reber, Jacob M. Reber, Samuel M. Reber and Sarah Reber Heim. He was a step-brother of Benjamin Reber. Daniel was married twice. In 1827, he married Helena "Helen" Eleanor Bertolet Reber. They had the following children: Daniel B. Reber, Jonathan Bertolet Reber, Mary Ann Reber Seigfried, and Sarah Reber Renno. Unfortunately, Daniel's wife "Helen" died in 1863. Approximately four years later, in 1867, Daniel married Sarah Ann Wert Reber...who at twenty-two years of age was a remarkable thirty-eight years younger than sixty year old Daniel. Perhaps more remarkably, Daniel and Sarah had four children named Amanda Jane Reber, Jane A. (probably "Amanda") Reber Fahl, John Grant Reber and William Henry Reber. Amanda Jane Reber and Jane A. (Amanda?) Reber were twins, born on 05/28/1873. Not so remarkably, even tragically, Amanda Jane Reber and William Henry Reber are both listed as having died the day they were born, perhaps even having been still-born. Daniel died in Schuylkill County, PA, on September 1, 1891 and was interred within the St. Paul's Church cemetery, Summer Hill Road, South Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He would have been 84 years of age, which would present an age discrepancy of approximately three years between the information provided on findagrave.com and the news snippet quoted within this post. Whether this is the same Daniel M. Reber who briefly owned and operated a restaurant in Auburn is uncertain but possible. |
"Staller's Luncheonette" -
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