Update: Thanks to Jim Stoffers, who has been helping me with Manning area history for years, he found a 1950 census record that states Herbert Kuhl (wife Alice and sons Gene & Rollin) as a bartender/tavern for his occupation.

I have quite a few tokens scanned from various Manning businesses of the past but did not have this one, until I recently purchased it on E-bay.
Then I discovered I don't know for sure if there were 2 Herbert Kuhls from this time frame or if the Herbert buried in the Manning Cemetery owned/operated this tavern at 406 Main...he married Alice Wilhelm and they moved to Manning from Aspinwall in 1947, and then moved to Carroll in 1959.
No mention in either obituary of operating a tavern.
They had 2 sons, Gene & Rollin.
According to the Manning Centennial book this tavern was in operation during the mid-1950s.
Herb first purchased the tavern at 407 Main Street in 1946 and called it the Blue Moon and then sold it in 1948.
So I assume he then purchased the Princess Cafe after owner Robert Kuhl's death, and renamed it to Kuhl's Tavern.

Princes Cafe 406 Main - owned/operated by Robert & Bertha (Vollmer) Kuhl
Behind the bar: Charles "Pitts" Gruhn with glasses, then Robert & Bertha Kuhl.

Bertha (Vollmer) Kuhl - from the Arlene (Kuhl) Pershing collection where she lived in California.
I have no pictures of Herb Kuhl

Herb Kuhl Tavern float during the August 16, 1956, Diamond Jubilee 75th Anniversary of Manning

Before the Princess Cafe it was the Lyric Theater at 406 Main.

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