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

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, the chain founded by relatives of the original group, still maintains locations in Pleasant Hill, Dublin and Hayward.

The Oakland location of Kasper’s 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 in October.

Kasper’s is a well-known name among generations of locals. It served up Chicago-style hot dogs with sliced onions and fresh tomatoes — a garnish approach some people call “dragged through the garden” — on steamed poppyseed buns. (Certain customers also swore by its tamales.)

The so-called Original Kasper’s location in Oakland’s Temescal District closed in 2003. But it left such an imprint on local history that a local businessman, former Digital Underground member Tyranny Allen, plans to revive it this year under the Winky Dinky Dogs brand.

“We’re going to have a poster board with the whole history of Kasper’s,” Allen told The Mercury News this spring. “The owner’s the one who popped off this whole hot dog craze.”

All told, October was a bad month for hot dog chains, as Top Dog in Oakland also announced its closure, leaving just one location left in Berkeley.