Pinders - 530 S. Ohio

It is said the it was Wally Sperry who approached Ed Pinder about owning a resturant - Margeurite did not want to sell . Marguerite Sperry stayed on after the Pinder's bought the resturant.

An ad from the Culver Citizen of March 1, 1973. Ed Pinder family assumed ownership and opened the restaurant under their name on March 1, 1973.

Pinders Resturant 1973-2002, Nov. - Ed & Lora Pinder

1973 - Pinders Buy Sperry's Restaurant

Ed and Lora Pinder, of Culver, assumed ownership of Sperry's Restaurant Thursday, March 1.

The restaurant, at 454 Ohio St., Culver, started with sandwiches and pies from the bait shop operated by James "Wally" Sperry in 1966. A year later a paneled dining room was added and in 1971 another enlarging with the addition of a new kitchen leaving the former kitchen-counter area for eating area.

Pinder is a matnematics teacher in the Culver Community High School and his wife a bookkeeper.

They will be assisted by Mr. Pinder's mother, Mrs. Harold (Fay) Pinder, and Mr. and Mrs. Sperry for a few weeks before they make their home in Brownsville, Texas.

Pinder's father, Harold, will help out in the bait shop when he retires.

The Pinders reported they had tremendous response to their "opening" Thursday and all through the week end. They are planning gradual improvements and hope to enlarge in the future. An attraction of week end specials will be featured and they will "serve a menu people can afford. - Mar 8, 1973 Culver Citizen

Over the years they made improvements and expanded it at least once it not twice - adding a large dining room to the east. During the year it was mainly family empolyed there, their children and their future daughter-in-law.

The menu started out being basically everything fierd and they slowly expanded into luncheons, dinner specials (home cooking type meals), salads and deserts

2002 Nov. - By this time they closed - memory does not recall it the building sat empty before it was bought and reopened as the "Fishbarn"