MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
SPLENDID CAFE–Noted for its excellent seafoods, Western steaks, and good coffee. They serve delicious food in delightful surroundings.
Categories: Gulfport
Vacation Postcards: Splendid Cafe, Gulfport
Preservation in Mississippi 
Everything about this is splendid! Wish it were still there. Can’t think of many historic dining spots in our state. Weidmann’s in Meridian may be the oldest?
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I think this would be a successful “revival business” today…..love it.
Especially with this vintage interior, and excellent food.
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There are several historic eateries in Jackson. The Elite and The Mayflower are two that come to mind.
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Johnnie’s Drive-in is the oldest restaurant in Tupelo and it’s on the Elvis Trail so you gotta go there! If you do, try to sit in the Elvis booth. Just walk in and sit down. Don’t wait for someone to seat you. If there’s no room, make some new friends and sit with them!
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The Splendid is a memory. Katrina took was left of the building.
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I want to go there …
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Where was the Splendid?
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The Splendid Cafe was in Gulfport on the corner of Twenty-sixth Avenue and Thirteenth Street, north of the Great Southern Hotel. The owners operated a hotel upstairs.The men who drove the famous Magnolia Route non-stop from Gulfport to Chicago in the 1925 ate breakfast provided by the owners of the Splendid before beginning the endurance trip. Joe Casey commerated the event in his book, “The Magnolia Route: 1923-1927.”
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There is a picture in Images of America, Gulfport, which is a similiar angle; however, decorated differently. There are slip covers on the stools and chairs, for instance.
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That’s just SPLENDID! Pun intended!
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I’m wondering what the column-like element in the front center is.
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I can’t really tell, but perhaps it’s the end of a dividing barrier between the seats at the counter and the rest of the room?
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There was a restaurant in the Edgewater that reminded me of this place before the botched demolition of the grand hotel. Aren’t we supposed to be saving places like this???
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https://polldaddy.com/js/rating/rating.jsAre there any pictures or records of K P Cafe in Hattiesburg Mississippi in the early 1940’s?
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