The restaurant where Jimmy Hoffa was last seen

Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the Red Fox restaurant

This is a "then and now" photograph of the Red Fox restaurant in Detroit, Michigan. The Google Street View image at the bottom was taken in September 2018.

This is the location where union boss Jimmy Hoffa was last seen.

He reportedly paced up and down this parking lot while he was waiting for local mob figures to arrive.

Map

This aerial image shows the Red Fox restaurant and the former location of Damman Hardware.

Shortly after 2.15 p.m., Hoffa used a payphone outside of Damman Hardware to call his wife.

During their conversation, he told her that the other men were late and that he would be home at around 4 p.m.

Damman Hardware

This is a Google Street View image of the building at 6650 Telegraph Road, which sits directly behind the restaurant.

In 1975, it was the address of Damman Hardware. These days, it is a Planet Fitness gym.

When the men failed to show up after fifteen minutes, the former union leader walked over to a payphone in front of this store and called his wife.

Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone

Hoffa resigned from his position as the Teamsters president while he was serving prison time for jury tampering, wire fraud, and improper use of the union's pension fund. He was released from prison in 1971.

One of the conditions of his release was that he could not manage any trade unions until 1980. However, he refused to accept this, arguing that he had never agreed to such a condition.

Anthony Provenzano was a capo in the Genovese crime family and a high-ranking official in the Teamsters union.

Provenzano was strongly against the idea of Hoffa regaining his leadership. On one occasion, he reportedly made threats against him.

As tensions simmered, a Detroit-based mobster named Anthony Giacalone stepped in as a "mediator" and set up a meeting between the pair.

Hoffa was furious when Provenzano and Giacalone failed to show up on time. During his conversation with his wife, he claimed that he had been stood up.

Roughly 45 minutes later, the former Teamsters president was last seen getting into a vehicle with a group of men.

It is likely that the men in question convinced him that the meeting was going to take place nearby. It also stands to reason that he trusted one of them enough to travel with them.

In the aftermath of Hoffa's disappearance, both Giacalone and Provenzano denied scheduling such a meeting.

During the investigation, it was discovered that they were nowhere near the restaurant that day.

The general consensus among experts is that Hoffa was brought to a nearby location, murdered, and then cremated. It is likely that Giacalone and Provenzano were in on the plot and that they purposely created alibis for themselves by being elsewhere.

So far, dozens of digs in the Detroit area have failed to find any trace of Hoffa's remains.

Andiamo

This Google Street View image of Andiamo was taken in November 2021.

The northern side

This Google Street View image of the northern side of the restaurant is from 2016. Planet Fitness is visible over on the right.