Supper Clubs

WJON is continuing our series of Supper Clubs revisited in the St. Cloud area. The Persian Club opened on New Year's Eve 1961 on the south side of St. Cloud on 33rd street and Oak Grove Road Southwest.

The Pirates Cove Supper Club opened in the early 1970s by Roger and JoAnn Kirmeier. I was joined this week by John Decker and Steve Penick from the Stearns History Museum and longtime St. Cloud resident Jim Grabinski.

Supper clubs are rapidly disappearing across the US. Once upon a time, there were supper clubs that dotted the midwest landscape and were generally accepted as a place to say that your town had made it.

The Lakeside Supper Club along Highway 13, just to the North of Montgomery, announced via social media yesterday afternoon that it would be closing its doors for good.