The old Mill Restaurant is 90 years old! Thanks to Geoff Ladd and other contributors and volunteers from Logan county for restoring the Mill into a fascinating museum!
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@matthewaper37163 жыл бұрын
My Hometown. I remember eating there as a kid!
@twistoffate47912 жыл бұрын
I can't resist any Mill. I have heard of some folks who went there when it was a bar. It's had an interesting life.
@sidecarnutz84903 жыл бұрын
This was awesome. Thanks man!
@boxryde3825 жыл бұрын
Hi Rich, Awesome movie! I wanted to share a side story with you from my dad about “Coonhound”. My dad was from a small town near Lincoln and eventually worked/lived on the grounds at the State facility near the mill restaurant and always spoke of the schnitzel sandwiches. Anyway, growing up in the 1930’s in the small town, he liked to tell a story about some of the men in town getting into an overland car and going to a rural prohibition era watering hole run by someone he called “Coondog”. The men would usually come back to town plastered. Apparently there was one time that they were so drunk that the men drove cross country through the farm fields and passed out and slept it off in lawns and public places. Someone called Coondog either to play a joke or to save face from passing out, and told him that they had gotten sick from bad homemade moonshine, causing him to toss out an entire batch of hooch. Coondog and Coonhound have to be the same person.
@HookedOnRoute665 жыл бұрын
Fantastic story!!! I wish I could have heard the tales first hand. What a hoot!
@mrfax67483 жыл бұрын
Home sweet home
@tomcaldwell57505 жыл бұрын
Thank you Rich! Always enjoy your Route 66 videos.
@patrickubanks11805 жыл бұрын
Many great memories from this great place....
@wi547255 жыл бұрын
A thousand thank yous for this video Rich. The last time we were cruisin' 66 in Illinois, the Mill was closed. All the pictures I took of that Illinois 66 trip, including driving over the Chain of Rocks Bridge, were lost on a broken hard drive and broken stick backup.
@wi547255 жыл бұрын
My wife and I visited the Mill this past Saturday. They had a special program at 2 PM.
@fernwehric-lifeinabus5 жыл бұрын
Great bit of R66 history!
@SomeplaceOrAnother5 жыл бұрын
looks cool, I'm adding it to things to see in Illinois
@trixier65054 жыл бұрын
Hope you post a new video soon. Miss your handsome young face and good, interesting videos!
@HookedOnRoute664 жыл бұрын
I'll try
@trixier65054 жыл бұрын
@@HookedOnRoute66 Good news and thank you!
@allisonjames11444 жыл бұрын
My grandparents Albert and Blossom would be appalled by the wrong information given. There very few descendants left. They failed to tell the public about how the mafia used to have their meetings there. Along with the teamsters as well. And my father had a hamburger there called the “Albert Burger” that he and his grandparents created when they found the mill and it was on the menu. My father Albert James was named after his great grandfather who is the founder of the mill along with his wife Blossom. Two of the sweetest people that you could ever meet.
@HookedOnRoute664 жыл бұрын
What wrong information was given?
@allisonjames11444 жыл бұрын
The information what was given were mostly false on how things came to be and how they ended up the way they had
@HookedOnRoute664 жыл бұрын
That's not very specific.
@allisonjames11444 жыл бұрын
The owners name was never mentioned. The only thing food wise mainly was talked only about the schnitzel. Or about the “famous” legs hanging from the ceiling. There is also an apartment above the restaurant which is where the founders of the mill used to live.
@HookedOnRoute664 жыл бұрын
Ok... so I'm not convinced false information was given. You sound as though your trying to say that incomplete information was given. Get some skin in the game. Go talk with Geoff or Morgan when they're open and educate them. Or, better yet, volunteer a day or two a week to help give out the whole story. That way you can rest assured the legacy is extended correctly.
@JayAim5 жыл бұрын
Hey! Just saw You around 4:00 today in Des Peres on the highway. Looked You up lol.
@HookedOnRoute665 жыл бұрын
Good times in STL traffic!!!
@JayAim5 жыл бұрын
@@HookedOnRoute66 Yes! Lol.
@pedrofernandez38935 жыл бұрын
How sad that these American icons are being replaced by IHOP and Dennys.
@2012turok5 жыл бұрын
need more vids rich.it's being a long time.
@daniellealtman-webster14762 жыл бұрын
Does it still have the mechanical foot in the ceiling?
@HookedOnRoute662 жыл бұрын
It does, but I think it quit working.
@Bonzi_Buddy5 жыл бұрын
Yipes. I drove past this place multiple times without a second thought toward this building. 🤦