The Idle Inn again.....

When we were on vacation in 1998 we drove home on Hwy. 36, as we love the small towns along the way. On our first trip we stopped at a little cafe and camp ground near Meadville, MO. It was owned by an older couple that told us interesting stories of owning their business and cooked us breakfast and it was also a museum. Many times through the years we talked about these interesting people and their little cafe, called the Idle Inn.. So all of these years went by and we found it, closed, of course, but we stopped and took some pictures. We were looking around and a guy on a motorcycling drove up and how ironic, it was the son of these two people who owned it. So cool to talk to him and to find out that his dad had passed, but his mom was still alive at 97 and that he had saved the stools and main lunch counter and put them in his new home, such a treat. So, again, here is a photo from the day we were there the first time and last week, sad to see it closed, but it was open for over 30 years, if only those walls could talk.
 

The Idle Inn in 1998

and now.....