A Hamburger Today
Legendary Missouri Drive-In May Close
Say it ain't so. The Wheel Inn, home of the Guber Burger, may be forced to close after the Missouri Department of Transportation widens the intersection it sits at.
The street changes will close the main entrances to the Wheel Inn as well as place 300-foot-long medians in the road that will prevent left turns into the Wheel Inn's lot. A widened intersection will also make it more difficult for cars to navigate the lot.
"It looks to me like it's the end of the Wheel Inn," said Jack Hawkins, who co-owns the building with his wife, Ruth Ann.
The Wheel Inn is one of the eight burger joints profiled in George Motz's Hamburger America burger biopic, featured for its unusual use of hot peanut butter as a topping on its burgers. Is there anything that can be done to save the Wheel Inn? It would be a shame if this Missouri icon died a slow death at the hands of street strangulation. At what price progress?!?
Sedalia icon faces extinction [Sedalia Democrat]