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Oxford Inn Menu, 2016
Inside a long-vacant building in my neighborhood (most recently home to the Liquor Shack), I found a hand-written menu for the Oxford Inn, a restaurant located just a block west until it burned down in the early 2000s. Depending on who you ask, the Oxford Inn was either a good neighborhood hangout, or a hive of scum and villainy.

I posted the full menu, and a different artist selected one of each of the 25 menu items to recreate. Once exhibited, each artwork was sold for the listed price from the menu.

Photographs by Mackenzie Loosemore.

The menu (original spelling maintained):

Tenderloin with chips & pickle 3.00
Dominic Senibaldi

Moz cheese sticks 2.75
Shelley Spicuzza

Ham & cheese 2.25
Jon Love

3 French toast 1.50
Steve Moore

3 pacacakes
Brent Aldrich

Biscuit gravy 1.50
Eric Walton

Bacon eggs 1.50
Brittany Rudolf

3 piece chicken & fries 3.75
Shelley Given

21 piece shrimp basket 4.00
C.J. Martin


New York strip w salad 6.75
(Potato)
Tom Streit

Chef Salad lg. 2.50

Scott Stulen
 
Chef Salad sm. 1.75
Sarah Fries
 
cauliflour 2.00
Elizabeth Ingram
“Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education” – Mark Twain
handmade paper from Indiana cauliflower
 
chicken wings 2.75.
Steve Smolinski
"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me" – Woody Guthie
 
mushrooms 2.00
Anda J. Cross
 
Onion rings 1.75
Kaylyn Fox
 
Bacon Cheeseburger 2.75
Mackenzie Loosemore
 
Cheeseburger 2.50
Colin Tury
 
Cheesedog 1.25
Liz Wierzbicki
 
Chicken Fillet 2.50
Ray Duffey
Chopping block frame with reclaimed wood
 
DBL Blt 2.50
Sarah Anderson
 
Fish 2.00
Katie Hudnall
 
grilled Cheese 1.75
Michael Hoefle
 
Hamburger 2.25
Carly Connelly
 
Patty melt 2.75
Marna Shopoff