{"id":17277,"date":"2019-07-01T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=17277"},"modified":"2019-07-01T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:45:04","slug":"jack-dempseys-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/jack-dempseys-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dempsey&#8217;s restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jack Dempsey&#8217;s restaurant<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1935 Jack Dempsey opened his famous restaurant known by his name,\u00a0 in New York, right in front of the third Madison Square Garden, which was located on Eighth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With live bands and dances and no cover \u00a0cost, the restaurant quickly became an iconic place for New Yorkers and\u00a0fight fans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boxing historian Bert Sugar recalls: &#8220;I was walking down Broadway and I saw Dempsey in the window. Dempsey himself! I could not believe it. I thought it was a poster. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was regular that boxing fans were welcomed with a \u00a0&#8220;Hello, friend&#8221; from Dempsey, who\u00a0was usually standing \u00a0in the corner booth, where he enthusiastically signed autographs and posed for photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for any boxing fan, it must have been a dream come true to sit down and enjoy a drink while Dempsey talked anecdotes about his battles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being such an iconic place, Jack Dempsey served as the backdrop for a memorable scene in Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s 1972 masterpiece, The Godfather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, just as Manhattan entered a period of sharp decline when the rising crime rate and urban decay affected the city, Jack Dempsey suffered along with it, having to close its doors in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dempsey&#8217;s restaurant &nbsp; &nbsp; In 1935 Jack Dempsey opened his famous restaurant known by his name,\u00a0 in New York, right in front of the third<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}