Beverly’s Pancake Corner is moving

Beverly’s Pancake Corner, which has occupied a corner on Route 66 in Oklahoma City for decades, is moving a few blocks down the street, reports the Daily Oklahoman.

Beverly’s, which is at 2115 Northwest Expressway, is moving to Midland Center at 3315 Northwest Expressway. The old site is reportedly making way for a Talbot’s women’s clothing store.

Louis Dakil Auctioneers will sell the contents of the diner and adjacent former furniture store at 10 a.m. Jan. 3. Dakil said the building will be razed to make room for new development at the prime intersection near Penn Square Mall.

Masoudy said she’s packing up all the Beverly’s atmosphere she can, and has a design scheme worked out to try to recreate the ambiance that has made Beverly’s both a local neighborhood eatery and a destination since 1956. […]

The first Beverly’s opened in 1921. Beverly Osborne and his wife, Rubye, came up with “Chicken in the Rough” — fried chicken served only with a biscuit and honey — and it became an icon of Route 66. The Osbornes franchised their specialty nationally.

“Osborne once said it started when he and his wife were eating fried chicken while traveling west in a Ford Model T on Route 66,” Max Nichols wrote in May in a monthly column from the Oklahoma Historical Society. “This is really chicken in the rough,” his wife said. It stuck.

Masoudy said the transition from a seasoned diner to a new space won’t be too rough. The new location will have a shiny counter, a window to the kitchen and other features and fixtures of an old-time diner.

“I’m making it a ’60s look,” she said. “I’m trying to make it homey — like Beverly’s.”

There’s no word on whether the restaurant’s famed neon sign is making the trip, also.