09/14/2026
A Piece of Mauch Chunk History at Café Arielle
Did you know the bar inside Café Arielle has some deep local roots?
When we first bought the bar, it didn't look like much, it was covered in a pink Formica top and about 20 layers of brown paint. But underneath all that, we uncovered the original woodwork from Mauch Chunk's past.
Check out this vintage photo of the bar back in its original home, alongside a newspaper clipping about the disastrous $175,000 fire that destroyed the old Weysser Brewery / Pancheri Beverage Company on Broadway.
While the brewery is long gone, we restored the original bar and gave it a new life inside the Stabin Museum.
Next time you're in for dinner or a drink, grab a seat at the counter, you're sitting right at a piece of Jim Thorpe history.
