Toots and Jack Stotler operated this thriving business — Night Hawks Tavern — from 1933 until selling to Buford and Anna May Foster in 1945.
The Fosters changed the name to Night Hawk Café. A stunning large neon sign with a flying night hawk whose neon wings flapped hung over the sidewalk.
The parents of Leland Payton, senior author of Damming the Osage (and James Fork of the White), went on dates to the Night Hawks, driving in from Versailles.
