From the road, Ed's looks like a prefab vinyl palace for all-day drinking, where pickup trucks roll in and line up four-wide in the expansive parking lot -- even on a Sunday morning -- to begin the hard work of tippling. Heck, this could be some tavern in Kansas, save for the suburbia surrounding it. But that actually gives you a clue to its origins: Back in '35, Ed and Matilda Wilczynski bought a tailor shop in the middle of nowhere (this was farm country at the time), bought a liquor license, and made it over into a public drinking house. And there the Wilczynskis stayed, for more than a half-decade. "Uncle" Ed passed away in 2002, in his 90s, but even toward the end of his life he'd still show up at his bar for a Jack Daniels and a cigar. So do lot of other people around here: The owners claim it's the oldest continuing operating business in town, and it's definitely a community center, sponsoring softball teams and bus trips, raising funds for children's hospitals, hosting promotions like weekly darts nights and something called he "Month of Fury."

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