"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" - Irondale, Alabama
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Scooter Bill
N 33° 32.310 W 086° 42.487
16S E 527099 N 3711025
The "Whistle Stop Cafe" of Fannie Flagg's southern epic of friendship, racism, and murder, is loosely based on an actual restaurant, the Irondale Cafe in Irondale, Alabama approximately between 1915 and 1935. The restaurant is still in operation and somewhat of a local tourist attraction, thanks to the novel and feature film. It is famous for its fried green tomatoes.
Waymark Code: WM1RVH
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jcak1979
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Short Description: The Irondale Cafe which gained fame as the setting for the book-turned-movie has become a local tourist attraction famous for it's home-style cooking and featured fried green tomatoes.

Book Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

Author's Name: Fannie Flagg

Name of Waymarked Item: The Irondale Cafe

Location of Item: 1906 1st Ave. N., Irondale, AL 35210

More Information:
The doors of The Irondale Cafe were first opened in 1928 as a hot dog stand by Emmett Montgomery. Maggie Prentice came along shortly thereafter, to add hamburgers, barbecue, and a variety of sandwiches to the menu, and in 1932 Miss Bess Fortenberry purchased the business. The “stand” was renamed the Irondale Café, and the rest, as they say, is history. Many years and several owners later, the cafe still serves fresh home-style food along with their famous fried green tomatoes to packed house. Come by for lunch and eat across from the track where trains roar by daily to and from one of the region's largest rail switching yards, just as they did when the cafe opened years ago.

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