Used menu from the Fount’n Grill at Katz Drug Company in Des Moines Iowa. Katz Drug Store was a regional chain of pharmacies in the Midwestern United States. In 1914, two brothers named Ike and Mike Katz opened two drug stores in Kansas City, Missouri. On July 7, 1948, Edna Griffin, John Bibbs, Leonard Hudson and Griffin’s one-year-old daughter, Phyllis, were refused service at Katz Drug Store in downtown Des Moines because of racial discrimination. A waitress took their order for ice cream but after she was told not to serve them, she reported that they don’t serve colored people.
The menu does not state Des Moines, but was purchased at an estate sale with four other Des Moines menus. It does not state a date, but the prices and typography all indicate the 1940s.