In 1897 Mr. Charlie Hasselback, of German descent, brought the Hot Link recipe to Camp County. Today they are known as the PITTSBURG® Hot Links. Hasselback was first located in the "Old Maddox Building" on Main Street, and he sold the links over the counter for preparation at home. Mr. Hasselback built an addition to his building in 1918
and began serving cooked links over

the counter. The surroundings were not elaborate; wooden counters and benches, the links were served with crackers on heavy market paper, and special hot sauce was provided in soda water bottles. Cold drinks were offered in many assorted flavors. The links were 2 for .05 cents, 5 for .10 cents, and a dozen for a quarter. You could eat them there or carry them out, a custom that became popular with the housewife. Word about the links traveled fast. Pittsburg had two railroad lines and before long the crews on the trains scheduled their stopovers in Pittsburg and walked up the alley behind his place of business for their noon and early evening meals. Truckers and traveling salesmen also soon started coming. People from other towns liked the links so much they tried to match the flavor of the links in grocery stores and meat markets but were unsuccessful.