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Article: Lunch Box Earns Place as Metro Area Institution
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- December 17, 1994
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Journal Record. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It was difficult for the Papahronis family to imagine anything
but a bright future in 1981, when it seemed to all Oklahomans
like the oil boom would go on forever.
Aristotle John Papahronis, known to his customers as John,
doubled the size of his downtown Lunch Box restaurant at 413 W.
Sheridan Ave. His outstanding food and spectacular pies attracted
so many oilpatch customers some called it "Petroleum Club West."
Courthouse lawyers and city employees joined the old-fashioned
cafeteria line every day, along with other downtown workers.
The oil slump that devastated Oklahoma City in 1982 was just
one of the problems faced by Papahronis. His father, John B.
Papahronis, who had come ...