Gerald,
I have a card that has on one side "Grier's Restaurant South Main Street
Lewistown, Illinois Harry Grier, Proprietor. ( with a photo of him)" and on
the other side "Railway Time Tables, C,B.&Q. ( listing the trains going North
and South)" and also " F.C.N.G.Ry. ( also listing the trains going North and
South.)" Date is unknown.
Verlin
--- On Wed, 8/25/10, Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CBQ] re: Grier restaurants
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 10:18 AM
Per our discussion several yrs ago, Grier had even more restaurants on the Rock
Island & as memory serves, had a much closer relationship with the Rock (RITS,
their Historical Society, had a 'clinic' on same at a meet in Cedar Falls, IA
yrs ago & I believe Grier was covered in one of their society publications) Any
mbrs of RITS on this list?
On the other hand, CB&Q had a variety of entities providing food service at
various stations as witnessed by earlier posts. Also, BR 'dinner' or 'lunch'
passes I have from the good old days do not cite 'names' such as Grier but just
locations and there were far more than the Grier operations. All that said,
Grier was probably the largest commercial restaurant service on the Burlington
but when you consider how many stations once had food service they were a
minority. (older timetables show 'lunch' stops)
Gerald
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