DINING GUIDE OF THE PAST
Joe Myers' Restaurant
Lancaster, PA
May 14, 2017
Joe Myers Restaurant was located at 2270 Route 30 a couple miles east of Lancaster, PA across the highway from the wonderful Dutch Wonderland amusement park and the Lancaster County Wax Museum.
Between the former restaurant site (now a hotel) and The Host Farm Resort still stands an old stone house that was originally on the site of Dutch Wonderland. The Myers Family saved the house from demolition by moving it (very slowly) on a trailer across Route 30.
Throughout the 1970s, my family and I ate at Joe Myers' twice a year, every April and October. It's where we had dinner after attending the semi-annual Train Collectors Association meet at the International Fairgrounds over in York. My Mom didn't care to spend hours looking at trains, so we dropped her off at Park City Mall.
Prior to being moved to York in 1969, the TCA meet was held in a guernsey barn off Route 30 near Joe Myers'. I gather that the restaurant was a favorite spot of old-time collectors, particularly those heading back to Philly, Jersey and NY. It may have been a TCA member who put us on to eating there.
At dinner time on Saturday nights there was always a long line, mostly of locals, waiting to be seated. These were kept amused by George Myers, the original owner's son who asked where they were from and regaled them with chitchat and extremely corny jokes.
