Caption on the front of this real photo postcard: "Fry Bros. Turkey Ranch & Dining Rooms, 20 miles north of Williamsport, Pa., on Route 15. Caulkins, T-14."
A restaurant with its own turkey farm, the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch and Dining Rooms opened for business near Trout Run, Pennsylvania, in 1939. Located along U.S. Route 15 on Steam Valley Mountain, it's situated about 20 miles north of the city of Williamsport and about 100 miles north of Harrisburg, the state capital. The restaurant celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014 and is still known today as the
Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch. Although the owners serve about 100,000 customers a year, they no longer raise their own turkeys.
I stopped at the restaurant in 2006 while traveling north to New York State, and I had a tasty meal of turkey and waffles there. It was so good that I had to stop again for some more turkey and waffles on the way back.
For some real photo postcards showing the restaurant in the 1940s or 1950s and some of my own photos from 2006, see my
Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch album.
A
turkeys photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.
