A Mini-Red Rooster Grill Romance from Iowa Falls IA
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- The Red Rooster today
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- The Red Rooster in the 1950′s
I posted this 1950′s picture of the Red Rooster Grill on Facebook, History of Iowa Falls page with the following message: Does this look familiar to anyone? My parents, Kep and Mary Kepler opened the Red Rooster. Dad, painted the windows ~ freehand every week or so. He also did the windows on the Super Value next door ~ owned by my grandparents. 1950′s.
The next post from fellow Iowa Fallsian, Richard L. Gaulke is so sweet, I wanted to share it on my blog. Here is what he had to say.
Familiar? I guess so!! When I cruised the streets of Iowa Falls late at night in 1955 driving my 1951 really cool baby-blue Pontiac convertible tricked out with white-wall tires, white mud-flaps dotted with ruby reflectors, and a squirel …tail afixed to the radio antenna, I stopped at the “Rooster” to check out the action. A really cute girl and her girl friend were in a booth. Not knowing either girl I, and my male friend, struck up a conversation with the girls and I offered them a “ride home” which they accepted. I and this girl spent hours that night talking as if we had known each other for years. We married in 1956 and will celebrate our 54th anniversary is this June. The Rooster is the place where my happiness started so it will always be special to me. Great image. Thanks.
I replied with: Who was this really cute girl, Richard? I’m sure she still is just as cute.
Richard finished the Iowa Falls, Red Rooster, sweet romance story with: She is my wife, Sharon. We are great-grandparents now and our “cute” has mellowed down into just plain “good looking.”
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