Men standing outside storefront to Cheap John's billiards and tobacco store
Men standing outside storefront to Cheap Johns billiards and tobacco store
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Men standing outside storefront to Cheap John's billiards and tobacco store
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Men standing outside storefront to Cheap John's billiards and tobacco store. Caption on back: CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE -- Perhaps only a few today remember 'Cheap John,' who, in this old picture, is shown with Rear Admiral George F. Winslow and others in front of his tobacco store and billiard parlor on the east side of Purchase street near the present site of the W.T. Grant Company's store. He was a Brazilian, whose real name was Jose Adelina Carneiro da Cunha.