Yeager's Acres May 10 1951 Ad

I've posted a few ads and articles about Yeager's Acres, the long-gone restaurant that used to be at the corner of Kolbe Road and Cooper Foster Park Road that my grandparents used to frequent. The ads seemed to generate some nice memories for those who remember the place fondly, so here is another one I found. It announces the Grand Opening of the new Knotty Pine Dining Room and ran in the Lorain Journal on May 1, 1958.

The food items listed are kind of interesting. I don't think you see Chicken-In-The-Basket as a menu item these days anywhere (at least it's not on Midway Oh Boy's or Mutt & Jeff's menu). The stewed chicken initially didn't sound too appetizing to me, but an online recipe on cooks.com indicates that it's served with dumplings, which makes it sound like a tasty dish indeed.

Yeager's Acres 1970 ad

Since I'm temporarily stuck on vintage restaurants again as the topic of this blog, it's a good time to post this clipping, which I found on microfilm at the library.

Last year in this post I mentioned a local restaurant that was a favorite of my grandparents, namely Yeager's Acres. It was located at the intersection of Kolbe Road and Cooper Foster Park Road, the current location of my family doctor's office.

Since then, I found this ad for Yeager's Acres in the business section of the Lorain Journal of September 21, 1970. (Click on it so you can read it.) It's one of those ads that masquerade as an actual article. I like those types of ads, though, because they provide a detailed window into the subject matter that you don't get from a simple boxed ad – and that's important when you're trying to research something that's been gone for almost forty years.

Anyway, the ad literally puts a friendly face on the day-to-day operations of Yeager's Acres and maybe a loyal patron of the restaurant will stumble upon this blog and get a kick out of it.

Remember Yeager's Acres?

I turned 50 this year, so naturally I'm starting to fall apart – necessitating a visit to the doctor for a physical. Since I hadn't been to a doctor in years, I had to find a new one. I was lucky enough to find a terrific one at the Tri City Family Medicine in Amherst. What was interesting to me about this is that Tri City Family Medicine is right where a restaurant called Yeager's Acres used to be.

Yeager's Acres was one of those things that I associated with Amherst, along with the Old Spring. The restaurant was located at the intersection of N. Main (or Kolbe Road if you prefer) and Cooper Foster Park Road. Two of its phone book ads – one from the late 1950's (top) and late 1960's (below) are shown.

I can't say I actually remember eating there, although I think my grandparents did. (The 'No Liquor Served' line in the ad makes me doubtful though!) Maybe I just liked the name of it. (Several other people do too, because a quick Google search reveals that there are several other Yeager's Acres around the country, including Ohio.)

The restaurant first showed up in the Lorain phone book as Yeager's Acres Drive Inn in 1949. Its listing disappeared after the 1971-72 phone book.

After the restaurant closed, a Lawsons was later located on the site. It, too, closed at some point, because my doctor's office is in the unmistakable old Lawsons building. (I thought I smelled chipped chopped ham during my exam.)

Anyway, if anyone has any memories of Yeager's Acres, please post them so I know I'm not the only old coot that remembers the place!