Jerry's restaurant in Jeffersonville is GONE! 08/07/2013

Jerry's restaurant in Jeffersonville is GONE as of 08/07/2013.
A friend posted video of the demolition this morning on Facebook. Really sad. Don't know how to share his video here.

It's been about a year since (a) the people who leased Jerry's after Mike Moore became Mayor let the insurance lapse and (b) a major fire took place in the kitchen causing $200K in damage.

END OF AN ERA in Jeffersonville!
Rumor is that Jerry's will be replaced by a Waffle House.

Walking the streets of Ottawa the previous week and admiring their beautiful canal made me think of the short-sightedness of the new Jeffersonville mayor's decision to kill the canal project. The Big Four Bridge ramp segueing into a tree and condo lined canal would have put that place over the top!

Wow that's a bummer. Had quite a few meals there over my lifetime.

I'm a transplant.....not a lifetime Jeffersonvillian and it even pained me to see that this morning. Pretty sad.

(Photos from WAVE3.com)

From the Jeffersonville Evening News 08/07/2013:

JEFFERSONVILLE — For generations of Jeffersonville residents, hitting up the local diner meant getting a J-Boy platter at Jerry’s. For others, it was far more than that.

“It was my home, it was our home,” said Bonnie Nifong, a former Jerry’s waitress who worked at the restaurant since 1988.

She stood next to another former Jerry’s waitress, Donna Wariner, both with tears in their eyes early Wednesday morning as the building was being pulled to the ground.

Jerry’s Restaurant was torn down Wednesday, less than six months after a fire claimed the diner’s kitchen and temporarily closed the doors. The fire occurred in March, the same month that Jerry’s celebrated its 50th anniversary in Jeffersonville.

Property owner and Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore said the damage that was done to the building was too much to recover from. And along with former employees and a few onlookers, the Moore family, which has owned the restaurant since the 1960s, watched as it was razed.

Rest of the story . . . http://newsandtribune.com/x1938691438/N ... ate=taberU