The FOOD Museum folks tend to seek out postcards that capture a slice of time--showing people growing, harvesting, cooking, and eating food, as well as restaurants, and so on. A few cards convey the history of the time in words, as well.
This place in Illinois was started by Walt Williamson in 1936 as a coffee shop and hamburger joint attached to a gas station. It grew into a 300 acre resort and "entertainment complex." Then, after Walt's death in 1975, the enterprise began to slide downhill, ultimately burning down, and then, due to wrangling over the land, sat in its burned out state until finally authorities pulled everything down in 2004.
It had a decent almost 40 year-run. The card? Published in 1946, with the following write-up.
"Only women are employed in the kitchen of the Wagon Wheel because women, through their innate sense of taste and daintiness, excell in the fine arts of cookery."
So there you have it! We excell in cookery, dainty all the way.
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