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Coffee Pot Cafe may be gone but it's filled to the brim with memories

Posted: Saturday, January 2, 2010 12:00 am | Updated: 10:15 am, Wed Sep 5, 2012.

It’s been nearly 40 years since the smell of Mabel Weathers’ fried chicken at the Coffee Pot drew a line of hungry customers so long that it lined Osage Avenue and wrapped around the block onto Second Street. It’s been just as long since customers were greeted by the restaurant’s gregarious and friendly co-owner, John Van de Kamp.

Where a pile of broken bricks, splintered timber and melting snow now sits at 112 and 114 S. Osage Ave. was once a hub of community activity and anxiously attended after-church Sunday dinners. Originally a partnership between Van de Kamp, and fellow Sedalians Bill Howell and Mildred Brackman, the Coffee Pot and the adjoining Pine Room, as well as Howell’s Seed next door were a part of the post-World War II boom and a flourishing downtown in Sedalia.

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