"A Movie and a Coke: The Kozy Korner"
A Movie and a Coke The Kozy Korner The Kozy Korner was a restaurant that was opened in by John Vouras at the corner of Delaware Ave. and Washington Streets, Wilmington in 1922. Later it was run by his son Nick until 1985 when the building was demolished for a hotel construction. In 1991 Nick re-established the Kozy on Union St. After my retirement in 1995 I frequently joined Mary with here mom there for breakfast. At some point I gave Nick a print of my 2002 18 x 24 watercolor painting commemorated both the opening of Rockford Tower a hundred years earlier and the 2002 re-opening of the observation deck which had been closed for years. Later Nick asked me to paint three watercolors of the same size of local subjects of my choice. The original Kozy Korner was an obvious subject for my first painting, A Movie and a Coke." I chose to do a 1950s high angle view down Delaware Ave with the Kozy on the right and other landmarks of that time visible along the street. Delaware A