Unusual people & places - August, 2006 Jamestown, KY. "The Cookery " The Cookery is a combination country diner and Kaiser-Frazer antique auto museum in rural Jamestown, KY. It's an ordinary (but unique) down-home restaurant with over 200 customers' hats lining the walls.
Half Country Diner, Half Auto Museum The Cookery serves great western omeletts and one-of-a-kind fried biscuits -- with antique cars "on the side". Included in the collection is an old Henry J "Jeepster", one of the first compact cars.
Floyd and Judy, "at home" in their restaurant/museum Floyd, who belongs to an antique car club, says he bought and restored his first car in order to replace the horse-drawn wagon that sat under the restaurant's sign.
He said the wagon had been there a long time and was "falling down". He was looking for something to take its place when a friend told him about an old Kaiser-Frazer rusting away on a car lot in Russell Springs, a nearby town.
Well, one thing led to another, and after the Kaiser Frazer, Floyd just continued on. Pretty soon he was restoring cars left and right. (We don't know WHAT this one is. Can anyone help us out?)
That's a replica of a 1902 Ford in the back there.
Floyd's collection of mechanical antiques is not limited to cars, of course. He's got a whole section devoted to old outboards, plus organs, old signs and other interesting things.
The Cookery from the outside.
You'd never know what's on the inside --if you hadn't seen it here on
