In the Beginning:

From 1973 through 1977, the Club was in its formative… certainly not its growth… years and met at various places for lunch with as few as 3 and probably, at its zenith, no more than 20 – 25 members attending. In those early years, we met at Nick Carter’s in the Central West End; then at Walter Mitty’s in the Clayton area across from the old Famous-Barr building on Forsyth; and, finally, at the Tropicana Bowl on Clayton Road near the Galleria.
At Nick Carter’s, there was no particular organization. Just “Mizzou football talk” among a very few (never more than 8) Tiger fans. Cafeteria-style lunches at Walter Mitty’s probably drew 30 – 35 sometimes, and on occasion horrible old black and white game films were shown. At Tropicana Bowl, we finally hit some stride with a stone-age speaker phone that hooked us up to Coach Al Onofrio in Columbia, during which President Pierce Liberman would act as moderator.

The Club Finds a Home:

During those formative years, we were really searching not only for our identity but for a format and place to meet from which we could build.. A genuine coincidence… my company’s move to the Community Federal Center in December of 1977 and a coaching change from Onofrio to Powers … provided the stimulus for a dependable place to meet on a regular basis. Community Federal’s second floor Blue Chip Room became our home room and provided a place where, every Thursday night about 15 times a year, people would know exactly where to go for Club functions, narrated game films and special guests.