Vintage '72 George Raitt's 50 Yard Line-Chatham NJ-Historic Restaurant Matchbook for Sale

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Vintage '72 George Raitt's 50 Yard Line-Chatham NJ-Historic Restaurant Matchbook For Sale

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Vintage '72 George Raitt's 50 Yard Line-Chatham NJ-Historic Restaurant Matchbook:
$8.90

George Raitt's 50 Yard Line, 522 Southern Boulevard, Chatham Township, NJ:In 1972, George Raitt bought the Hickory Tree Inn and opened The 50 Yard Line. It was a steak house decorated with posters and memorabilia of football players, mainly the New York Giants. Raitt was killed in a plane crash the following year.Local folklore says that the Hickory Treee Inn held (legal at the time) cock fights in the basement in the mid-1800s. In the 1920s and 30s, The Hickory Tree Inn was the local gin mill during Prohibition, providing alcohol and ladies of the night to interested customers. In the 1950s, the Hickory Tree Inn had the reputation of being a place where underage young people could be served alcohol with no questions asked.