Mader's Restaurant

Mader's was founded in 1902; before the Wright brothers first flight and before Henry Ford's Model T. In 1902, A porterhouse steak or 1/2 roast duckling dinner, were priced at twenty cents, or six for $1.00. Lunch was four cents, but if you drank two steins of beer at three cents for one stein, or a nickel for two steins, your lunch was free. The tables and chairs were wooden and rickety, the walls and bar eneven. The ceiling was tin, a fan provided the air circulation. Often the rugged men who frequently Mader's became inebriated, and stumbled out.