98 – Pabst Brewing Company, Cohen Furniture
“Parking for Pabst Building Employees and Vistors Only”
The Pabst Brewing Company operated it’s Peoria Heights location from 1934 until it’s closure in 1982. The building in the background is a Pabst building which Cohen Furniture used as a warehouse. Cohen’s is also closing after being a staple in Peoria for 127 years.
Additional information provided by David P. Jordan:
“The Cohen’s warehouse was built by Pabst in 1968-1969 for Continental Can Co., which moved its aluminum can manufacturing operation from Pioneer Park to Peoria Heights c. 1970. Continental Can closed in 1980 and Pabst Brewing Co. shutdown in 1982. Cohen’s bought the warehouse for its distribution center c. 1989.”
October 27th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
A potentially wrong guess of Peoria Heights just south of the Pabst building on Prospect looking off towards the Cohen Furniture warehouse in the distance. I think they are building a brand new building on the west side of the street that will be home to a construction company.
It’s either that – or something else completely…
On to 100!
October 30th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Looking southwest from the west end of Sieberling?
October 31st, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Yeah, I would agree that it’s Cohen’s warehouse in the Heights, which was built on the grave of the old Pabst Brewery (where my dad worked for a while back in the ’60s).
November 1st, 2006 at 8:14 am
The parking lot around the corner from “7 on Prospect” on the little dead end street.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:33 am
No fair. Notice the snow?
November 8th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Very observant, Vonster. I should’ve waited until our first snowfall and *then* put this one up.
November 8th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
The Cohen’s warehouse was built by Pabst in 1968-1969 for Continental Can Co., which moved its aluminum can manufacturing operation from Pioneer Park to Peoria Heights c. 1970. Continental Can closed in 1980 and Pabst Brewing Co. shutdown in 1982. Cohen’s bought the warehouse for its distribution center c. 1989.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
BTW, Williams Brothers is not only building the new commercial building behind CVS but is on line for 80 or more units of apartments in that block.