A downtown Tyrone Restaurant hit the two-year mark on St. Patrick\u2019s Day.
\nThelma\u2019s Cafe has operated for the last two years at 966 Pennsylvania Avenue at what used to be Hullihens Pizza.
\nIn a March 2003 article about the restaurant\u2019s opening, it was noted the specialty at Thelma\u2019s is \u201chomestyle cooking.\u201d The restaurant showcases its specialty with a full breakfast and lunch menu.
\nThelma\u2019s is owned by Tim and Donna Wahl. When contacted last week about the restaurant\u2019s birthday, Mrs. Wahl was asked if any changes were on the horizon for the cafe. She stressed they just plan to keep doing what they\u2019ve been doing and invoked the \u201chomestyle cooking\u201d theme.
\nThe Wahl\u2019s also own a restaurant in Huntingdon called Donna\u2019s.
\nWhen Thelma\u2019s first opened, it adjusted its hours within days, after numerous customers wanted an earlier start time for the breakfast menu.
\n Before the restaurant opened its doors in 2003, Mr. Wahl took about three weeks to renovate the building. A. A. Contracting and Buck Anders helped with the work. The building had to be cleaned and painted. Wahl was also helped by Deb and Don Boonie, Danette and Pat Leeper, Patty and Jeremy Anders and Peanut and Sherry Miller.
\nAt the time, Wahl said, \u201cWe put a new floor in, put new ceilings in, and had a lot of plumbing to do because it froze up,\u201d said Wahl.
\nA new counter was installed and the kitchen was redone.
\nOnce the building was ready to go, the focus moved to all of the food that Donna prepares herself.
\nAt the time of the cafe\u2019s opening, the restaurant offered almost any kind of egg or omelet for breakfast while the lunch menu included hot meatloaf, hot turkey, hot ham, hot beef sandwiches, steak sandwiches, monte cristos, reubens and hamburgers.
\nWhen the business started up two years ago last week, Mr. Wahl said, \u201cShe makes everything herself. All the pies she makes. She makes a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing that everybody dies for.\u201d
\n Other pies and cakes that are available are coconut cream pie, apple pie, apple dumplings, cinnamon rolls and pumpkin rolls.
\nThe Wahls have also remodeled the second and third floor of the building for apartment rentals. Mrs. Wahl said three apartments have been done, and there is one remaining to be remodeled.
\nShe said the business did have water damage in its basement from last September\u2019s flooding but was not heavily affected by it.
\nThe couple\u2019s Huntingdon restaurant, Donna\u2019s, has been in operation for eight years. Mrs. Wahl said she had worked in the restaurant industry prior to that time.
\nThelma\u2019s Cafe is open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The phone number is 684-1663. Delivery is not available. The cafe offers counter and table seating to accommodate more than 40 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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