Smoky's Club – 1953
proprietor Leonard "Smoky" Schmock & wife Janet.
They owned and operated Hogan's Club from 1953 until '69, when the widening of University
Avenue shut them down. Luckily, Justo's, in business down the street since 1936, was
available, so the Schmocks bought it and renamed it Smoky's Club.
http://www.smokysclub.com/
Justo's Club
The Justo family had a colorful history. On Feb. 12, 1923, Jennie's father Carl Justo
was found dying in a bloodstained snow bank on
Death Corner with a charge of buckshot
in the back of his neck. Some said it was an act of retaliation because his son Dominic
had squealed on men who had robbed the Randall State Bank on Monroe Street in March 1922.
Jennie Justo, dubbed "Queen of the Bootleggers," was arrested in 1933 for running a
speakeasy out of her home in the Greenbush neighborhood. Legend has it that a federal
agent was trying to date Jennie, but when he was rebuffed, turned her in.
After her arrest, Jennie Justo served a year in prison in Milwaukee, and came home to a
hero's welcome. She later married Arthur Bramhall, a former quarterback for the Chicago
Bears, and the two ran the popular Justo's Club. Jennie Justo died in 1991.
