Dining room, Cliff Cafe, Lanagan, MO, 1949

Subjects: Interiors Restaurants & Taverns
Card type: Real photo
Date: c. 1949 (Chrome)

Back of Dining room, Cliff Cafe, Lanagan, MO, 1949, c. 1949 real photo postcard — Back

About this postcard

The dining room of the Cliff Cafe in Lanagan, Missouri, holds wooden tables and chairs on a bare floor beneath rough, cave-like rock walls. Exposed electric bulbs light the room, which has the plain, utilitarian look of a small roadside cafe. Lanagan is a small community in McDonald County in southwestern Missouri, and the Cliff Cafe's rock-walled room fits the kind of distinctive Ozark roadside stop that travelers might remember from the mid-twentieth century.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

From Melvin R Rec'd Jan - 18 - 1949 Lanagan, Mo.

Addressed to

No address detected

FromMelvin R, Lanagan, Mo.

Postcard record

Publisher	Blake Photo
Condition	Very good
Place depicted	Cliff Cafe, Lanagan, MO
Notes	Black-and-white real-photo print; printed caption “DINING ROOM / CLIFF CAFE / LANAGAN - MO”; photographer credit “BLAKE Phot’” in the negative; thin white border. No postmark. Divided back; EKC stamp box; red-ink message “From Melvin R / Rec’d Jan-18-1949” and “Lanagan, Mo.”; light age toning.

Cite this card

Dining room, Cliff Cafe, Lanagan, MO, 1949, postcard, c. 1949. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/dining-room-cliff-cafe-lanagan-mo-1949. Accessed November 2, 2026.