The Packers were founded in downtown Green Bay in 1919 and have maintained a presence there ever since. In 1921, during their inaugural season in what is now the NFL, they held their first practice at the Old Courthouse Grounds at the southwest corner of Cherry and Jefferson Streets. Later that year, before the first Packers-Bears game, the Lumberjack Band gathered at DeLair's Cafe on Washington Street and paraded in hunting caps, mackinaws, corduroy pants, and high boots on their way to catch a midnight train to Chicago. For most of the 1920s, Curly Lambeau worked as a salesman at Stiefel's, a men's clothing store on Washington, while also coaching and playing for the Packers. Players continued to live, eat, party, and mingle with fans downtown into the Glory Years of the 1960s and beyond. Downtown stood at the heart of Titletown, the nickname Green Bay adopted during the Lombardi Dynasty, when national media came to praise the great Packers teams and their larger-than-life coach and celebrated the area's popular gathering places, the mood on its streets, and the way a cherished football team helped turn a small, sometimes bitterly cold Midwestern city into a paradise.