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under her new roof. “We!
sell a lot of them, and I
know they're good, but Ij
didn’t know the history of
them,’ she said.
At Baker's cafe, we were
told that Harry Druck of
Marietta knew a lot about
shifter history, and might,
in fact, be the chef who
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...more on the origins
built the first one.
Harry, it turned out, was
not the creator, but he did
take credit for introducing
the sandwich to Marietta
back in 1949.
‘In Marietta, I was the
first to make it,” Harry/|
said. ‘“Where 1 learned’
about it was at the height
of the depression in Colum-
bia.”
“l first got mine at]
‘“‘Babs’’ Leitheiser’s’’ he |
added. ‘‘That was in
around the time of the
crash. The first one I got |
was 20c or 25¢”’
Raymond ‘‘Babs”’
heiser,
restauranteur, might be the
creator of the sandwich,
Harry thought. He put us
'29 |® :
Leit- }§
a Locust Street |
in touch with Babs’ widow, i hf
Mary Leitheiser.
No, Mrs. Leitheiser said. |B 5x,
Her husband did not invent §
Babs bought ji
his restaurant in '36 or "37. {i
Lee j&&
Crouse, was already mak-
ing the sandwiches at that }#
the shifter.
The previous owner,
Did Crouse
for inventing
claim
the
time.
credit
sandwich, or did he learn |§
to make them from Tuffie
Olena?
“I heard people talking
about it, but I guess I
didn’t listen very hard,”
Mary Leitheiser says. “I
must have sold thousands
of them. Of course, they, a
only cost a dime back
then.”’
George Brenner invented
his own shifter at the Sugar
Bowl in Millersville. *“‘I
thought I had made it up,”
George says. One day a
professor told George that
his ‘‘original’’ sandwich
was just an ordinary shif-
ter.
The evidence we have
. gathered to date seems tc
indicate that Tuffield Olen:
was probably the man whc
created and named the
shifter. If any of our
readers know some facts
which have escaped our
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©
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This 0-6-0 wood-burning PRR switcher was photo-
graphed at the foot of Locust and Front Streets in
Columbia in the 1870’s. Engines like these were called
“‘shifters.”” The sandwich is named after the engines.
(See story.)
photo courtesy of Dick Geesey of Columbia. Our thanks
to Joe Balt and Tom King for helping in locating the
photo.
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