Mark Twain Dinette remains a popular Hannibal fixture
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) - Anyone paying a visit to Hannibal's historic downtown can't miss the tidy brick restaurant with the giant revolving root beer mug.
The Mark Twain Dinette has been serving tourists and locals alike since it opened in 1942 on the same street where young Sam Clemens grew up.
Hannibal draws a half million visitors each year, and many of them stop in for the dinette's giant tenderloins, maid rites and homemade root beer.
Several of the restaurant's 32 workers have worked there for years and even decades. Workers say they've seen generations of families eat at the dinette.
Visitors tend to make return visits, too. One waitress recalled a man who came in several days as a dead ringer for singer Art Garfunkel. Turns out that's who it was.
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