Turn Back Time With a Stay at a Charming Retro Motel & a Meal at This Vintage Supper Club in Wisconsin
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From Only in Wisconsin: A few years ago, I was driving back home to Minnesota from a camping trip on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and got on U.S. Route 8, which would take me through some of the prettiest parts of Wisconsin, including the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and all its incredible trails. About half an hour out of Michigan, I approached the tiny town of Dunbar, Wisconsin, and I saw the most wonderful vision: a fantastically retro motel with an attached supper club (and as anybody who’s read much of what I’ve written here knows, I love supper clubs, especially in Wisconsin).
I didn’t have time to stop on that road trip, but the name was burned into my mind: Richards of Dunbar Supper Club and Motel. I knew I’d have to visit one day, even though it’s six hours from where I live. Well, I recently got the chance when I was tasked with chasing down some waterfalls in Michigan. I deliberately planned an overnight stop in Dunbar and quickly determined that this supper club and retro motel in Wisconsin’s Northwoods should be on everybody’s must-visit list.
Leaders envisioned a former North Charleston diner as a community hub. Now it’s on sale for $700K.
The former Al’s Diner that sits on East Montague Avenue in Liberty Hill is on the market for $711,000. Kenna Coe/Staff
From The Post and Courier: NORTH CHARLESTON, SC — After sitting vacant for decades with the threat of being demolished, the building that once housed a beloved diner in Liberty Hill is now on the market for more than $700,000.
Al’s Diner on East Montague Avenue was once a staple of the Liberty Hill community. A gathering place for neighbors, the family-owned restaurant that opened in the 1950s was known for serving fried chicken and shrimp dinners with its famous lima beans. Since the restaurant shuttered nearly four decades ago, no other tenant has moved into the two-story brick building, according to neighborhood leaders.
Intricate World’s Fair mosaics in Queens to be demolished — despite activists’ desperate pleas: ‘It’s really a shame’
Five remaining mosaics will be demolished and removed from Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the next calendar year. Jeenah Moon
From the New York Post: They’re trying to pick up the pieces.
Five historical mosaics commemorating Queens’ World Fairs will be demolished in the next few months — despite preservationists’ impassioned pleas to rescue the pieces of New York’s past.
History lovers are outraged that the Parks Department is abandoning hope of restoring the intricate medallions adorning the entrance to Flushing Meadows Corona Park, with officials claiming the severely eroding tiles pose a safety hazard to pedestrians.
Famous Fat Boy Drive-In on the market for $875,000
Fat Boy Drive-In in Brunswick. (WGME)
At This Illinois Museum, the Exhibits Are Larger Than Life
The American Giants Museum plans to have four more giants on the grounds by 2026, in addition to the gaptoothed giant called a Snerd and the giant Texaco gas station attendant. Photo by Bryan Birks
From The New York Times: For more than two decades in this no-stoplight town in central Illinois, a 19-foot-tall fiberglass man has stood alongside a stretch of Route 66, holding a giant hot dog.
Now, up the block at the American Giants Museum, more giants have joined him. There’s a giant Texaco gas station attendant, a gaptoothed fellow called a Snerd, a waving man in a blue bow tie.
The free museum, which hosted its grand opening in May, celebrates the history of the now-defunct International Fiberglass Company of Venice, Calif., which made hundreds of the giants, also commonly known as muffler men, from the mid-1960s to the 1970s.