Continuing with yesterday's account of LH sites between Mt. Vernon and Cedar Rapids, Iowa from Jan. 24 Mt. Vernon Sun.
3. Midway Inn or Sprincl's Midway Inn-- located at a bend of US-30 where 94 cut off to Marion. A little building with room for 2-3 people and a couple gas pumps. In 1922, Frank and Marie Rompott Sprincl purchased it, enlarged the restaurant, moved the pumps to the front of the mechanical garage and started serving good food. It soon became the "hot spot" for folks from Mt. Vernon and Cedar Rapids.
It had a counter with rotating stools and two or three wooden tables.
They sold beer, but after Prohibition, beer could only be sold in city limits and Princl's was sold. The reroutng of US-30 and Depression hurt business. Levi Nuenswander and his wife ran it.
Several times, trucks took the corner too fast and crashed into the building. It was finally destroyed when the exit onto Hwy 94, now Bloomington Rd., changed.
Old Places on the Lincoln in Iowa. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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