NICK'S HAMBURGER

They came north in the old family car from Spencer, Iowa, earlier that year intending to emulate the success of the Swezey hamburger experiment that proved so popular in the 1930s that the shops ballooned to 77 in the Midwest. The hamburgers were different because they were made using a tank fry method. The only survivor of that glorious hamburger venture is what today is known as Nick's Hamburger Shop at the busy corner of Main Avenue and Fifth Street in Brookings, South Dakota, home of South Dakota State University, the state's largest institution of higher learning... When he was old enough, Nick and Gladys' son Harold, Jr. donned a white apron and helped serve the hamburgers on a square of waxed paper rather than on a plate. He learned the secret formula for the Nickburger relish, how to slice the onions just so, and the mixture of the secret contents of the tank fry batter that turned prime hamburger into a mouth-watering delicacy... Nick's Hamburger Shop located on Main Street..

Also known as: Nickburger, Nickburgers