History & local legend
Café Origins on Broadway in Jim Thorpe occupied a building once used as a Lehigh Coal and Navigation garage. That earlier workforce supplied the characters for a ghost story told during the local Rotary Club’s walking tours.
According to the account published by The Rotarian in 2007, the former mechanics still gathered after hours. Their parties announced themselves through the clink of drinking glasses and the smell of cigars, even when the restaurant should have been quiet.
A diner visiting chef Denise O’Donnell’s café in 2009 described a peaceful restaurant among the Broadway shops near the opera house.
