Joe Jr. Before It Was Joe Jr.

I happened upon an item in an old August 1937 edition of the New York Times:

Jacob Kaufman and his wife, Ida, proprietors of a pharmacy at 482 Sixth Avenue, were held in $10,000 bail each yesterday by Magistrate Ford in Felony Court on a charge of suspicion of grand larceny after Irving Mendelson, Assistant District Attorney, declared they had been connected by the police with four men accused of having stolen jewelry and clothing from women.

That's the address of Joe Jr., the longstanding diner that closed for good recently. The Pharmacy was called Kay Laboratories.