Showing posts with label Origin of the Hot Dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Origin of the Hot Dog. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2016

TAD Dorgan and the Origin of the Hot Dog


[1919] Full-page Hearst News advert in Moving Picture World, Feb 22 


“We take him to a dago joint down on the east side and let him eat a lot of ravioli and listen to the wops. He always got a kick out of that… then we take him up to the McAlpin and set him up in a window on the top floor where he can look straight up Broadway. He just sits there and looks at the lights and traffic and talks about the old mob up at Jack’s café.” — Ike Dorgan about his brother’s last days, to Westbrook Pegler in ‘Death Claims Tad Dorgan, Phrase Maker’ in the Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1929


[1939] Philadelphia Inquirer,  June 17
[1919] The Moving Picture World, Feb 8, with photograph of ‘famous “TAD”’ (1877-1929).  Movie houses showed TAD cartoons in weekly newsreels from Hearst News.