Where is it? It’s here!

Let’s hear it for

Fat City commenter Heatherkay who guessed, correctly, that this photo was the side of the delightful Skillet Licker Cafe in Kansas City, Kansas. The owner of the building evidently liked the original artwork advertising the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company to have re-painted the faded lettering.

The reference to the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company threw off Fat City commenter Bill, who wrote: “With the name Loose attached to it, I’d say somewhere near, but not too near (the Loose) mansion on Armor.”

OK, Bill. It’s Armour, but you made a very educated guess. No, the Skillet Licker Cafe is nowhere near the old Loose home. And yes, the beautiful Jacob Loose mansion remains one of the few grand manor homes still standing on the former “street of millionaires,” Armour Boulevard. The Pitch wrote about the home’s expensive renovation in 2004; it was turned into a venue for receptions and events — which rubbed at least one high-profile neighbor the wrong way. Fat City has celebrated that historic house too, on the anniversary of the Hydrox cookie, one of the innovations of Jacob Loose’s Sunshine Biscuit Company. The Loose Wiles Biscuit Company later became Sunshine Biscuit in the 1940s. It doesn’t exist today, but several Sunshine Biscuit brands are still made by Keebler, which is owned by Kellogg’s.

And Fat City commenter Karen Geary couldn’t remember the Takhoma biscuit — she’s way too young for that — which was introduced to compete with Nabisco’s Uneeda biscuit. Today, when most people hear the word “Takhoma,” they either think of the city in Washington or, in culinary terms, the “Takhoma Sack” used, for decades, as a slogan for Steak & Shake.