Meanwhile, the restaurant’s fifth owner, Louis J. Grippo Sr., was born in the Strip District in 1931 and would come to the Oyster House as a teenager. He would appear in the doorway of the Oyster House with his friends and they developed a reputation for leaving without paying, prompting Americus to threaten them with arrest and ban the group. Grippo’s daughter and current owner of the Original Oyster House, Jennifer Grippo, tells the family legend like this: “My dad and some of the boys from the neighborhood would get money from the pastor of their church. My dad, being the oldest, would be in charge of buying the boys fish (from the Oyster House) and pop before they would go over to the YMCA to utilize the swimming pool. My dad would pass back the fish and pop and, one by one, the boys would sneak out the side entrance (McMasters Way) and leave without paying. Mr. Americus would always say that he would have the boys arrested if they ever did it again. At the tender age of 12, my dad was standing the doorway after pushing the rest of the boys out into the alley and said, ‘You know what mister, someday I’m going to come back, buy this place and fire you!’”
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