Caintuckee Grill Baptist Church in background nw corner where US  25 &  42 meet	Homelike Motel, US 42 & 25	Vater's Restaurant  On U.S. 25 and U.S. 42  Florence, Ky  Home Cooking- Home Made Pies Leila Vater, Prop,

 

Florence Hotel On Main.  That's Girard on the left.
The Florence Hotel only had 9 rooms, one of which was a tavern and a couple others were the owners' living quarters, and three fireplaces. It's on the corner on Main and Girard. Don't confuse it with the Southern Hotel. That hotel sat directly across the street on the corner of Main and Youell and it probably had 21 rooms and 7 fireplaces. They were the first stage coach stop out of Covington before the railroad came thru.  Thanks to Billy Tackett for the update. right, From a Facebook post by Boone Co Library Local History

 

Tom's Papa Dino's Where Boone County learned to eat pizza	Rainbo Tourist Home  Ward Stegner, Prop.  Modern Rooms and Cabins, $1.00 and up  Dinners - plate lunches - sandwiches.  Dixie Highway - 9 miles south of Covington, Ky.,  on Route 25 and 42 Phone Florence 124, Florence, KY	Ramada Inn,  Florence, 1967

 

292 Main Street. In the center of the photo was the home of Joe Littrell's Shoe Repair Shop. To the right is Tom's Papa Dino's Pizza. And to the left of the photo you can see Chambers and Grubbs Funeral Home. From a Facebook post by Timothy Burgess

 

 

Scherf's Motor Court, US 42

 

Skyline Drive-In On the Northeast corner of US 25 and US 42  That's “Clarence & Kerna” in the pic.  Last names?		Ackley's Drive in Restaurant, Florence  On the n.e. corner of US 25 and US 42  Open 24 hours.  1954.

You don't remember the American House.

Florence Motel	Frontier Motel

 

Menu of the Ackley Drive-In Restaurant, featuring “Rough Chicken”

 

       

The Dragon Inn
On Woodspoint Drive

Jerry's, on Dixie, across from Turfway
From a Facebook post by Jerome Whittle

	This Whitey's on US 42 opened on February 19, 1976. Images are from 1977 (left ) and 1978 (right).

1959

 Southern Trails Restaurant and Catering 
Dixie Highway, Florence, Kentucky 
Famous for our Extravagant 
Sunday Salad Buffet and Family Style Dinner
 Special Menus for Private Luncheon and Dinner 
Parties, Receptions or Club Meetings 
 Catering Anywhere
 For Reservations Walter Herzig
 371-2175 Proprietor
Image on the left from a Facebook post by Barb Hodges Henninger

A 1965 feature story on Southern trails.

 

Cover	Menu	Greeting	History
Southern Trails Menu

 

Clyde Calloway's Steak House		The Ground Round