![]() Then it was their turn, becoming the third generation to take over the business. Ron, Bern and Tom Dusing all began working in the shop in their teens, picking up blocks of ice with metal tongs and throwing them into the ice chipper to be bagged. “We probably have the oldest continuous liquor license on the highway other than maybe a few bars,” Bern Dusing said.Īs refrigerators became the norm in most homes post-World War II, the Dusing Bros. Through it all, the Dusing Bros.' weathered wooden porch and cashier window – built when Dixie Highway was a dirt road surrounded by farms – have remained. Thousands of cars pass by daily on Dixie Highway going to the Crestview Hills Town Center, Florence Mall or the hundreds of restaurants and businesses that have grown around Dusing Bros. Ron Dusing winced as the engine from a souped-up compact car with large spoiler let out a loud machine gun rat-tat-tat. The surrounding Erlanger/Elsmere community has changed from farmland into a bustling suburban metropolis. For much of their history, it mostly was Budweiser, Wiedemann, Hudepohl, Schoenling and Miller. They don’t have the imperial oatmeal stouts and hundreds of craft brew varieties popular with younger crowds. They retrieve it from the backroom shelves. They like to walk into a store.”Īt Dusing Bros., you drive up and tell them what you want. “To replace that, it takes someone to get used to coming into something like this. “A lot of the older customers we’ve had have died or moved away,” Bern Dusing said. Much has changed since the Dusings’ grandfather and great-uncle started the business in 1928. The closure will end another of the last living remnants of the region’s past. “I’ve been coming here how many years, Ron? Well, at least 20 years since I moved back here.” “They’re like brothers to me.”Ī pensive look crossed his face shaded by a mesh ballcap. His parents also bought beer and ice from the Dusings. “I love these guys,” Ginn, 60, of Florence said. Their other brother, Tom, quit several years ago due to health reasons. Brothers Bern and Ron Dusing, now in their 60s, want to rest after working long hours in the ice business for most of their lives. Ice Manufacturers over the past 89 years have bought the same thing for so long, they can drive up and find their order of beer, ice or other sundry items waiting for them without a word exchanged.īut now they’ll have to go to big box stores and convenience chain stores and order their beer like the rest of us.ĭusing Bros. Ginn and other customers of the Dusing Bros. ![]() Out came a case of Keystone beer, ushered quickly into the backseat. ELSMERE – Like a chauffeur awaiting a celebrity, Dave Ginn silently opened the back door on the passenger side of his maroon sedan.
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