Closing time at Coun's C Club - Green Bay Press Gazette
After 49 years operating Coun's C Club, 1315 County C, Darrell and Audrey Counard have sold their business and closed the doors Thursday night. The couple, who celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary this July, plan to spend more time at a cabin near Wausaukee – a cabin Darrell said he built using timbers salvaged from a barn in Brussels. After leaving his job as parts manager at "the Ford garage" in Sturgeon Bay, Darrell said they leased a tavern in 1965 across the road from their current location, in a building that now houses a church. When they bought the current location in 1966, "There was no kitchen," Darrell said. We put that all on. ". Wedding showers were huge back then: "About five, six, seven hundred people. And that shower would be this Saturday, and then there'd be a wedding," Darrel said. wedding-shower, wedding- shower. Another change over five decades, according to Darrell: "Years ago, the farmers would bring their own meat. They used to have roasters and they'd put the meat in there in the hall. Sitting at a table in the front barroom Thursday morning, Darrell pointed around the room. "We used to have Belgian Days here," Audrey said. "We'd open this door and that door over there, and this place would be packed tight," Darrell said. Source: www.greenbaypressgazette.com
