This photograph from the fall of 1938 shows the Charles Yanonis Cafe on the 400 Block of West Coal Street in Shenandoah, PA.

Yanonis was a Lithuanian immigrant who had settled in Schuylkill County in the late 1890s or early 1900s and found work in Shenandoah’s coal mines.

By 1922, he had opened a cafe at his home on West Coal Street that he would operate through the time of his death in 1963.

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Read more about Shenandoah’s history

“Mother Jones” at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania | September 1900

Dancers at a Shenandoah, PA landmark – Maher’s Dance Hall | 1938

Shenandoah in 1938 – Photographs of Filipek’s Bar

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