Dickey's Prairie Home
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"One and one half miles north of Pekin is the Tradition Restaurant and Country Pizza Oven formerly Dickey's Prairie Home Restaurant.
Prairie Home was originally located on the south side of highway 78 and was a country school. The school building was destroyed by fire and rebuilt on the north side of the highway. Don and Gladys Downey purchased the school building after the school closed in 1954 and started Prairie Home Restaurant and ran a grocery store there also. The restaurant was destroyed by fire in 1964. Harold Dickey purchased the remains and built the present restaurant building. Dickey sold the restaurant to Mike and Linna Ament who ran the restaurant and changed the name to Mike's Prairie Home. Today the restaurant is leased and operated by David and Brenda Cox. The restaurant is called The Tradition and serves the best food in the area. The Country Pizza Oven is located in the northeast corner of the restaurant building.
(Editor’s note - Since the writing of this book the restaurant has closed and the building is now a funeral home. (March 2003) "
"http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/Towns/Pekin.html"
Prairie Home was originally located on the south side of highway 78 and was a country school. The school building was destroyed by fire and rebuilt on the north side of the highway. Don and Gladys Downey purchased the school building after the school closed in 1954 and started Prairie Home Restaurant and ran a grocery store there also. The restaurant was destroyed by fire in 1964. Harold Dickey purchased the remains and built the present restaurant building. Dickey sold the restaurant to Mike and Linna Ament who ran the restaurant and changed the name to Mike's Prairie Home. Today the restaurant is leased and operated by David and Brenda Cox. The restaurant is called The Tradition and serves the best food in the area. The Country Pizza Oven is located in the northeast corner of the restaurant building.
(Editor’s note - Since the writing of this book the restaurant has closed and the building is now a funeral home. (March 2003) "
"http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/Towns/Pekin.html"
It was the place we celebrated birthdays at with the grandparents when I was little. The drive from Fremont seemed like it took hours but was worth the wait as the food was top notch good.
yes, I know it did seem like hours from Ottumwa as well. we used to go visit relatives in Dubuque, stop there on the way. seemed like half way to dubuque
In the late '70s-early '80s there was a truck stop off I-80 east of Grinnell (maybe the Brooklyn exit) called Dickie's Prairie Home. Authentic place, with the "Professional Drivers Only" table in the middle. Excellent pork tenderloin sandwiches. I assume the same family owned this one?
I dunno but I think I found one on facebook in like mt pleasant, so maybe so, it looked like it was in a gas station. either it's same family or somebody likes the name
I am fat today because of Dickey's!!!! Our family ate there all the time. One night when I was a skinny 12 or 13 yr old I ate like an Army Troop and couldn't get full. I've been a big eater ever since.
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