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Moores Sub Sandwich Shop to be Torn Down
June 1, 2007 |
The following is from The Signal May 31st, 2007
Tom Siebuhr has been fixing up cars for most of his life. For the past 13 years, he’s been helping people upgrade their cars and trucks while working at his muffler shop in Newhall.
It gets pretty hot in the small building where he works, so he used to get several extra-large iced teas every day at a submarine sandwiches shop down the street.
“Cause when it’s 114 degrees out here, you get a little thirsty,” Siebuhr said.
Moore’s Submarine Sandwiches was where he used to go to get the 72-ounce “bellybusters” filled with soda or a slushee drink.
The small building, along with the history of the business that once called it home, is scheduled to meet its doom next month with the wrecking ball.
The demolition was postponed twice: Once to look into whether it could be reconditioned up to code and again to meet a technicality because its demolition is done with city redevelopment funds.
“It’s a very old and very substandard building that really can’t be used at this point,” assistant city engineer Chris Price said.
After the demolition, the site at Fifth Street and San Fernando Road will be used for “some badly needed additional parking” that would have about 20 parking spaces, he added.
Sara Hajek, an employee at nearby Newhall Ice Co., said she ate at the old restaurant. Her favorite menu item was the turkey sandwich.
“But all the guys who worked here, they ate there every day,” Hajek said, citing the several businesses located nearby.
One of those guys is Jeff Lucas. He liked the tuna sandwich. The San Fernando Valley resident said he’s been working with the ice company for the past 13 years.
He recalled friendly employees and the Moore family who ran the business.
Sometimes, a sandwich would be ordered via telephone but no one would come to pick it up. “When that happened they had a sandwich waiting,” Lucas said. One of the eatery’s employees would then offer a free sandwich to one of the customers.
The Moore family opened its business, the first submarine sandwich shop in the Santa Clarita Valley, in 1972.
Mariann Moore, the former owner of Moore’s Submarine Sandwiches, closed the restaurant in August 2005 for undisclosed reasons after nearly 33 years in business.
The city then purchased Moore’s as part of its plan to invigorate downtown Newhall shortly after the close.
Mariann’s father-in-law, A.J. Moore, started the business, and in the 1990s, A.J.’s son Eugene took it over. Mariann Moore assumed control of the business when A.J. and Eugene both died from cancer.
“My mom ate there while she was pregnant with me,” Hajek said. “So it’s a landmark. But it’s all going to be different once the city comes through here and does what it wants to do.”
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