Curve Inn Incorporated

Specialties

The Curve Inn is a Dive Bar that specializes in a down roadhouse feel but also features the area’s best beer garden. During season, there’s live music in the beer garden 6−10pm and a DJ spinning til 3am. The garden also features it’s own Tiki Bar. Terrific daily lunch specials from 11am-​2pm and host of the Monday Wing Ding ($.25 cent wings with sauce bar) and a free taco bar on Thursdays from 6−8pm coming in April.

Owners Ami and Ray Merchant and Don Thompson have been the proprietors of this establishment for nearly a dozen years, but it’s been around since 1932. It’s Springfield’s ORIGINAL Roadhouse.

History

Established in 1932.

The building was built in 1932. The Copps family opened a bar the same year naming it Copps Corner operating the business until 1945. In 1945, Guido Manci purchased the building from the Copp family and named the bar The Curve Inn. Guido’s nephew is Louie Manci, who currently owns Louie’s on Stanton Avenue in Springfield. Louie’s is a frequent stop on several of the Curve Inn’s fund raising excursions. There was a grocery store and gas station next door and just to the north of The Curve Inn was a meat packing plant called Pegwill Packing. Workers at the plant would walk through the alley to have a cold drink at The Curve Inn. The Curve Inn had a scandalous history offering prostitution and illegal gambling. Customers could ring a buzzer at the bottom of the back stairs and could enter to the apartments above the bar for entertainment with the ladies. Neil McGillivray purchased The Curve Inn on August 10^th, 1972 keeping The Curve Inn name. He expanded by opening the Cask & Keg which was

Meet the Business Owner

Ami Ray M.

Business Owner

Been taking care of the Curve for years, along with Don Thompson, they run a great, clean, fun bar that will have you coming back all the time.