Sports Attic Building Was Full of History
Current and former owners watched on Friday as the Sports Attic in Brentwood burned.
In 1926, Mary Engelhard Van Cleave’s parents bought the building that later became the Sports Attic. Van Cleave, who with two of her daughters watched the building burn on Friday morning, was born on the second floor a year after her parents' purchase. Back then, the building was home to a tavern called Engelhard’s and Manchester Road was a dirt road. “I loved the tavern business. It was so much fun,” she said. “My dad was bootlegging first. It was just a little bitty building." She said that little building was later moved to Hanley and Brentwood to become an ice cream stand. She bought the place with her husband, John Van Cleave ("Van"), who tended the bar for her dad, Fred Engelhard. They ran it until 1974. “We had dinners for the Lions…
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Charlie
4:44 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
I was wondering if someone out there has any stuff from the old tavern that they would like to donate, my grandma would tell me so many stories about the place, I also worked there for a brief time and I am now a bartender at hacienda(I think that's why we talked about it a lot). I loved my grandma very much and will miss her! more ›