![]() No, he didn’t cook naked, but he did race that way! It was about 3:30 p.m. Jacobs was a 27-year-old Russian whose catering skills were well-known, and in 1880, he ran a lunch counter at the Oriental Saloon where he served fresh fish, oysters, lobster, crab and shrimp from San Francisco. Tombstone, Arizona, is known for many things, but I’d bet you’ve never heard of its naked chef! Oh, yes, Isaac “Little Jakey” Jacobs was quite a character, so it’s fitting he lived in a town that was full of them. ![]() Up ahead, a dark figure planted something in the road. Tombstone friends and rivals Isaac “Little Jakey” Jacobs and Isaac Levi, save athletic shoes and a stick pin (supposedly pinned somewhere on Jakey), infamously raced each other down the Dragoon Road on November 11, 1880. Isaac “Little Jakey” Jacobs raced his way into history.
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