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Bingo! We get to eat at this cool looking restaurant in Dubuque, Illinois. Timmerman's Supper club was founded back in 1961 and it is still there to this day.
Info on Timmerman's: http://timmermanssupperclub.com/about-us/
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Grandma and Marion took six people (including the lady who wrote on the postcard) to Timmerman's for dinner on September 25, 1960. If there were any baseball fans in the party, they might have been aware that for the first time since 1927, the Pirates clinched the NL pennant and the New York Yankees clinched the AL pennant. Also, the Phillies beat the Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses.
One item of news might have been on everyon's minds, since the club was run by a lady who demanded certain aspects of ettiquite (see link above) while dining at her establishment; Emily Post, author of books on etiquette, died at the age of 86 on September 25, 1960.
But enough of the past. What do you want to eat? How about we go for the Famous Seafood Platter for $36.00? Slipper lobster, Alaskan king crab legs, scallops, shrimp, and cod; our choice of deep fried or broiled with butter. All served with drawn butter and cocktail sauce. Yum!
Oh isn't that a cool old place! Their menu looks like it's at least 40 years old: nice steaks and stuff, but still with a side of cottage cheese available hahaha. I always get that when I (rarely) see it, just for the novelty, and to see if they artfully dust it with paprika.
I don't think we have supper clubs out here, though it sounds similar to what we used to call a roadhouse, a nice restaurant located some distance outside town along a major highway, combining a drive with dinner. My dad as a teenager worked at one called Rose's Inn on old Hwy 99, a few miles south of the old Spanish Castle which is famous for some musical reason that escapes me. He used to boast about how he could batter and fry shrimp and chicken livers better than anyone, but he stopped doing that sometime before I was born.
I did get to eat there before it burned down; excellent pan-fried chicken still.