Super Grill

Super Grill  – Located somewhere in the area of 627 North Broadway…  Few people remember the Super Grill on North Broadway. The  Super Grill was located next to  the Super Value Store on North Broadway…. The Super Value Store eventually became Northwest Music until the building was torn down with the upgrades to North Broadway.  In the 60’s and early 70’s there was also a Super Value store on south Broadway with a cafeteria on the south side of the building. The café is now a used car lot (Coach & Four). The grocery store closed and became Northwest Sporting Goods and is now the Goodwill Store.
The Waffle Shop -  The Waffle Shop was located in the 1^st Avenue Building in Downtown Minot. It was owned by Clifford and Ann Jones. The waffle Shop then became the Coral Café before finally closing

 The cars are parked in front of the Super Grill

Café in Cline's Super Valu on South Broadway

Embers

Shirley Room & Embers Restaurant. – Both of these restaurants were located in the now empty Midwest Federal Building and both in the mid to late 60’s. I’m not sure if they were both in operation at the same time. The Shirley Room was located in the basement of the Midwest Federal Building. I believe they did a breakfast and lunch menu. In my younger years I did not like bread or sandwiches but in the Shirley Room I learned to love a grilled cheese, ham and tomato sandwich. The Embers Restaurant was located on the top floor of the Midwest Federal Building. It as a bit of a fancier restaurant. I believe many of its clientele were area business men. I remember by brothers and their friends, (at that time considered radical), hanging out up there much to the consternation of the business men.

Poor Roger's Surplus

Sammy’s Pizza on Central Ave. – The Sammy’s Pizza in the 60’s was located on West Central Avenue. About 2 doors east of Broadway. The booths were in the back. The pizza’s were made in the front of the place next to the windows. I recall dough being tossed in the air during the Pizza making process. Next door to the west in the early 60’s I have been told the corner spot was the Bus Depot. The Bus Depot moved and in the late 60’s this area became Poor Roger’s Surplus (I believe the name is correct.) The only thing I remember about the store is that it seemed to have a continuous “Going out of Business” sale going on…. Eventually Poor Roger’s Surplus did actually “go out of business”.

Sammy's Pizza .. Bus Depot next to it and Rex Hotel behind

Toot 'N Tell'em

Famous Fried Chicken – this restaurant was open between1980 and 1995. They featured BBQ ribs, Gizzards and biscuits in addition to chicken. Famous Fried Chicken  was located behind the Brokers 12 building on South Broadway. Its location is now a parking lot for Dacotah Bank.

Toot N Tell’em – This  was located on the bottom of North Hill on North Broadway. The building was to the east of Bishop Ryan High School. The premise of the drive-inn was to pull up and “toot” the horn, then “tell-em” what you wanted when they came out to take the order

The Barn Café –

This café was located inside the Clarence Parker Hotel in downtown Minot. Both the Clarence Parker and the Leland Parker Hotel had café’s in their hey day. The Clarence Parker Hotel actually began as an office building. George Valker, Sr. started construction on the office building in 1920. It was never finished and was left vacant for about 20 years., except for birds roosting in the incomplete top stories, hence it was known as the “Sparrow Hotel”. After WWII, Clarence Parker completed the construction and created the Clarence Parker Hotel.

The Barn Café

Arvid's Red Carpet

This restaurant was a buffet line boasting more food than one could imagine. It was on West Central Avenue and 1^st St . It was located in the basement of what is now the Brady Martz accounting office. Arvid’s Red Carpet featured a Large red canopy over the entrance and red carpet going down the stairs to the restaurant. For the time, some say it was pretty fancy, boasting white linen on the tables. On the main floor above Arvid’s was a small liquor store whose owner was reportedly one of the bootleggers during the prohibition days

King Leo's Opens

the ad in the newspaper on January 22, 1963 proclaimed that King Leo’s was open for business. They billed themselves as the “Aristocrat of Hamburgers)…. King Leo’s was open Sunday through Thursday from 11 am to Midnight and Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 1 am… The opening menu featured Hamburgers - 15 cents …..  Cheeseburgers – 19 cents ….. French fries – 12 cents …. Soft drinks 10 and 15 cents ….. hot chocolate – 12 cents and triple thick milk shakes – 20 cents …. All burgers were made with 100% US Gov’t. inspected ground beef…. King Leo’s was located on the Magic Mile (south Broadway – where Arby’s is now).

 King Leo's - Not Minot location but same design