Photograph of the rebuilt shop with its delivery cart, 1905
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Translated from Ludwig Distel's German.
Tradition and Progress
[photograph, 1905. Shop front: "Ox butchery" - "Sausage goods" -
"Friedrich Fraenkel. B[utcher]". Lettered on the horse-drawn cart:
"Robert Distel Butchery."]
The rebuilt butcher's shop with its delivery cart, 1905
[shop sign:] DISTEL
The German as printed in 1986, as transcribed.
Tradition und Fortschritt
[Fotografie, 1905. Ladenfront: „Ochsenmetzgerei" - „Wurstwaren" -
„Friedrich Fraenkel. M[etzgerei]". Auf dem Pferdefuhrwerk:
„Robert Distel Metzgerei."]
Neugestaltete Metzgerei mit Geschaeftswagen 1905
[Schild:] DISTEL
Interesting facts
Why a butcher needed a horse. Before domestic refrigeration households bought meat small and often, so a shop's trade was limited by how far its cart could go out and return in a day. Delivery was not a service; it was the business.
