OLD TIMER'S SUPPER CLUB

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Matches. Photo courtesy: Jim Lang

OLD TIMER'S SUPPER CLUB. Old Timer's Athletic and Country Club opened for business in 1948. As indicated by its name, sports were important. As the first business in Dubuque with a black-and-white television, it attracted sports fans including at once the entire Oakville Country School, 14 students and one teacher from across the street, to watch the World Series. The club was owned and operated by Arthur Pins. His wife, Marg, was the cook. Pins did not allow swearing at the bar. Repeat offenders were told to leave.

Liquor sales by the drink were illegal in Iowa prior to 1963. Old Timers', like similar establishments attempted to regulate business by operating as a KEY CLUB.

In 1975, two years after the death of Marg, Art closed the business which was then called Old Timer's Supper Club. The ELKS CLUB purchased the building.

The 1955 Dubuque City Directory listed Old Timer's Road for the Old Timer's Athletic & Country Club.

The 1966 through 1974 Dubuque City Directory listed 2699 John F. Kennedy Road.

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Source:

"Old Timer's Supper Club," The Tri-States' Supper Clubs (supplement to the Telegraph Herald) October 17, 2024, p. 7