60 Years !
Serving Phoenix for nearly seventy years!
Meet Stan Zawatski. Stan started working at Cheese 'n Stuff when he was just a teen. Here he is, many years later, and now he has all the responsibility that his father had, and his grandfather before that.
Stan Zawatski
Cheese n Stuff opened its doors in 1949.
Also happening around that time:
- Color TV was introduced to the Public. The cost (adjusted to today's dollars) was $14,000
- The tape recorder was invented
- President Harry Truman desegregates the US Army, and urges a Civil Rights program for the United States
- The Sound Barrier was broken
- American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts
- "William Tell" French opera by Gioachino Rossini premieres in Salle Le Peletier, Paris
- First "stored" computer program is run
- The first transistor is used in place of a tube
- Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
- The 45 RPM record was introduced by RCA Records
- East Germany was founded. 12 years later The Wall would appear practically overnight. It would stand for 28 years.
- The CIA was founded.
- "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts
- Dragnet first airs on the radio.
- Apartheid begins in South Africa
- Cheese 'n Stuff served its first Reuben. 62 years later, it would serve its 1,000,000th sandwich to C.J. Hassett.
Have fun reviewing some of the photos from years gone by.
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