The new Coal Bank

The new Coal Bank
The new Coal Bank

The new Coal Bank Café is open. This picture of the site was probably from the 1950’s. By 1969 when Catherine Litchliter purchased the four lots (for a whopping $5,000) , the buildings were gone. Catherine used a small mobile home for her first café, selling footlong hotdogs and hamburgers during the summer. Catherine built the building currently on the site, named her business the Drive Inn, and …