Years ago the Walleye Shack Restaurant was doing so much business in a little shack
in the town of Valles Mines that they needed a bigger place. They wanted to build
a combination Road House and Restaurant nearby their present restaurant, on the
Chat Pile with 5 acres of parking and a lush natural setting spanning Valles Mines
Creek across from the Church House. But it was not to be. The new Walleye
Shack Restaurant/Road House project was postponed due to the then upcoming Interchange project
at State Road V and Highway 67 and the uncertainty of the adjacent Chat Pile's future in MODOT huge project. Circumstances forced the Walleye Shack to make a hard decision:
Accept a VERY attractive lease in Desloge immediately
or
wait for several years hoping the
MODOT Project left them enough of the Chat Pile
left to build their new restaurant as dreamed of: acres of parking right off a $6.5 million interchange with an overpass
and highway exposure to hundreds of thousands of cars passing every day.
Unfortunately, they chose Desloge and closed there after some time.
We hold out hope that someday the right restauranteur will come along and complete the dream
they had almost commissioned from the architect as shown below and on t he following
pages.
