Hayward: After 80 years, Caspers Hot Dogs is closing its 1940s vintage diner

The East Bay’s 90-year-old, family-owned hot dog chain, Caspers, is closing its neon-lit downtown Hayward diner that company founders built in the 1940s.

Customers have a few weeks to make a few more nostalgic trips to C Street for the classic hot dogs that snap when you bite into them. The final franks will be made to order — mustard, relish, onions, tomato slices and a sprinkle of celery salt on top of a beef-pork dog — in front of customers, as they have been for decades, on July 13.