This is my first post on forgotten Chicago and it is for my Dad.

He worked in the old Santa Fe yards in late 1964. He worked primarily with African-Americans and was a young kid (20yo) from Iowa. He enjoyed his work and always loves to tell stories regarding his short time there. Anyway, one night a friend of his, an old boxer named KC (or Casey) got hurt on the job in the early AM. The shift super told my Dad to get him to some doctor on Archer to fix him up and to then take KC to get Reuben sandwiches at Gladys's. My dad was the only white guy in this bar on the south side, circa 1964, at ~3AM. You had to walk downstairs to enter and there was a bar and kitchen. He wasn't concerned, because KC said "he's with me," and was treated well. He remembers everybody in the place being dressed to the nines.

Now, I know of the Gladys luncheonette on S. Indiana. That location was up the block (or two) from the original location. Can someone help me find out if there was a bar named Gladys's or similar on the south side, in a primarily African-American Neighborhood? Was this the precursor to the luncheonette? My Dad is not getting any younger and he wants to find out where that was, but he just cannot remember. We have done some research by checking the city directories of the time.

Thanks in advance.