Nickerson Farms Restaurants

Greetings,

I have been collecting Nickerson Farms stuff for years and actually started a blog to record it all.  There were many locations around the midwest and I have visited many of them.  I also have around 40 post cards from different locations.  It is a hobby not an obsession.  If you run across any Nickerson Farms big red roofs still standing, could you drop me a note.  I am trying to get a clear number of remaining building.  Thanks.

I also have menus, placemats, plaques, and ceramic banks.  Weird?  My wife thinks so.

There is one still standing that has been abandoned since the 80s, near a Stuckeys that was abandoned around the same time on I-70 at High Hill, MO (about 2/3 of the way from St. Louis to Columbia).

There is still a restaurant operating in an original Nickerson Farms building located at exit #129 on I-96 about 25 miles east of Lansing.  It's now called "Fowlerville Farms" and is still a family restaurant but I'm not sure the live operating beehive you could view through the big plastic half-bubble that was located inside the gift shop area is still humming.  I used to stop there frequently in the 70's while driving between Grand Rapids and Detroit and always parked on the south side of the building because I don't like bee stings and there was always a constant stream of them entering the hive through the opening on the north end of the building.  The honey was great with the hot biscuts they served.

There was a Nickerson Farms location (long abandoned, with the fading sign still
showing) in Shepherdsville, KY at I-65, exit 117 (Kentucky Hwy. 44, about 20 miles
south of downtown Louisville).

There is one standing up on Interstate 35 North as you head toward Austin, just past New Braunfels, but I can't recall what business is in the place now.
If you go Interstate 10 East from San Antonio towards Houston, you'll see a sign for FarmRoad 775 and and the towns of Lavernia and New Berlin..
On the left hand of the interstate is a gas -convience store  restaurant that was
remodeled from the old Nickerson Farms. It would be hard to recognize it as such, as the distinctive peaked roof is gone.However, the place is still commemorated in the Nickerson Farms Road,which if you take it up to the right will hit Stagecooach road, which brings you into the area around Marion.Those are the only ones left around the San Antonio area.

There's one (empty) along southside of I-70 in east central Indiana between the Knightstown  and Cambridge City exits somewhere - not sure exactly where but saw it the last tie I came thru there.

I did a Yahoo! search on Nickerson Farms and clicked on the Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickerson_Farms , and in there is a picture of the sign which I have seen along I-70 between Richmond and Indianapolis, which ZekeTheCat mentioned.

When I was younger we lived less than a mile from a Nikerson Farms on I-35 and Mulhall Rd. (Exit 170), about 40 miles north of Oklahoma City. My aunt worked there as a waitress in the 60's (I think). It was open 'til the mid-80's and then it sat unused for quite a while. It has now been remodeled into a very nice looking church. Next time I'm up that way I'll take a photo.

There's another old NF on I-35 just south of Norman, OK, around the Goldsby exit, that is a tractor sales and repair shop. I've also seen one in north Texas along I-35 that is a porno video store!

There is a former Nickerson Farms building in Michigan at exit 112 of I-94 - this location closed some time in the late 1970's or early 1980's.  During the intervening years it has been a bar on at leat two occasions; presently it is in use as a porno video store.

On I-70 west of Salina, KS (exit 244) there is a former Nickerson Farms building still standing.  I believe it was used as an arcade/fun center several years ago but has since been abandoned.  I remember eating here several times in the 70s.

There is a former Nickerson Farms building at I-80 exit 225, Amana Iowa. Now the Colony Village Restaurant , a very good Amana Colony eating establishment. In the early 70's I pumped Skelly gas at this Nickersons location.

There's the remains of a Nickerson Farms on I-10 at Picacho Peak, which is in between Tucson and Phoenix.  The building is still there, the sign still stands. I remember eating there back in the early 80's ('82 or '83).