Golden Derrick, San Antonio, Texas 1960s Clark's The Open all Night establishment

The Open all Night establishment had a sign above it saying "Auto Parties Stop Here" and was a popular stopping off point for waffles and milk shakes for kids on their way home after an evening spent dancing

Originally

This widely respected restaurateur embraced the farm to table ethos that is so popular now

Fred Harvey immigrated to the US at the age of 17 and worked his way up from being a pot-scrubber in a restaurant in New York to starting the country’s first restaurant chain called Harvey Houses

we notice a cub bear

Golden Derrick, San Antonio, Texas 1960s Clark's The Open all Night establishmentWas this the place to go and celebrate when you struck oil in San Antonio, Texas? This is a simply drawn but strikingly effective menu cover. There is the tower, which contains the machinery for turning the drilling bit around in the hole, and a little prospector's cabin. Since the Golden Derrick restaurant was at the Petroleum Center, we expect this is a bit romanticized but it's fun to think of newly minted oil millionaires coming here and, judging