An East Bay institution that’s slung tasty meat tubes for almost a century is no more.

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Kasper’s Hot Dogs shut down both of its remaining locations in mid-October, one in Concord and the other on Oakland’s MacArthur Boulevard. Started in 1929 in Oakland by Kasper Koojoolian, the brand has now gone from roughly a dozen outposts around the Bay down to zero — though Caspers Hot Dogs, another East Bay chain, is still seemingly doing fine.

The Oakland location closed after a death in the family and an impending plan to sell the building, reported SFGATE, which was first to write up the news. The spot will become a community-oriented kitchen run by Oakland Trybe. It’s unclear why the Concord location also closed shop this month.

Kasper’s is a well-known name among generations

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