2004 Earls Family Restaurant Chaffee NY Menu 10.25\" x 14.25\" For Sale

This is Earl\'s Real Food Family Restaurant laminated menu. Menu measures 10 1/4\" x 14 1/4\"

This menu is dated 2004.

For more than half a century, Earl’s Drive-In, a bustling diner on the outskirts of this tiny hamlet with a smattering of businesses and dairy farms, has drawn connoisseurs of home-style cuisine and twangy country music from western New York and beyond.

“Going to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto — you always have to stop at Earl’s,” said Debbie Bauer of Bradford, Pa., who was at the diner for breakfast with her husband, John, one morning this week on a drive home from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

Travelers can still stop by — at least, that is, until Earl Northrup, the diner’s co-founder and namesake, locks the front door for good. The servings of “food for the body, music for the soul,” as his business card promises, will end in a few days when the kitchen’s coolers and shelves are empty.

In a corner of the dining room, with its gold wallpaper bearing patterns of horses and buggies, the jukebox plays 45s that predate Earl’s opening in 1956, records by Hank Williams, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Grandpa Jones. Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America,” a favorite of Mr. Northrup’s wife, Marilyn, who died in 2002, is the only non-country offering.

Concerts held each year behind the restaurant used to showcase many performers, including Mr. Jones, who had a lengthy stint on the television series “Hee-Haw,” and Jimmie Davis, the two-time governor of Louisiana who popularized the standard “You Are My Sunshine.” Those concerts ended in 2004.

Restaurant closed in 2007.

I also have several of Earls music posters from 2004.