Cooking oddly good food since the 1950’s
As far as we can tell it was built in the mid 1950’s and at one time the concrete in front of the building had 1957 written in it. When originally opened, the road in front of the building was 71 highway and the main route from Kansas City to the Lake of the Ozarks. PDI can boast that it is the longest continuously operated businesses in Peculiar.
Originally opened by the Goody family, they started slinging burgers fresh off the grill just like we do today. It has had a hand full of owners over the years but the doors have never c...
Pete and Jake’s Hot Rod Parts Turns 40
After WWII, G.I.’s who were used to flying fast planes, driving powerful tanks, jeeps and trucks came home, stripped their old Model A or ’32 roadster of it’s fenders, upgraded their engines and headed for the track, abandoned air strip or the salt flats to fulfill their new found need for speed and power. That was the beginning of the hot rodding movement as we have come to know it.
Pete Chapouris & Jim “Jake” Jacobs, longtime friends, began building and testing hot rod suspensions and parts out of necessity. Other than the local junkyards...
