Nickerson Farms was an American

United States

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 roadside restaurant

Restaurant

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 franchise that existed between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. It was started by a former Stuckey's

Stuckey's

Stuckey's is a roadside convenience store chain found on highways throughout the United States. Stores are concentrated in the Southeast, Southwest, and Midwest, although operations have existed as far east as Connecticut and as far west as Oregon...

 franchisee who did not agree with that chain's rules and regulations. Nickerson Farms had as many as sixty restaurants located along Interstate highways, mainly in the Midwestern United States

Midwestern United States

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. Each Nickerson Farms location had a full-room restaurant, with a gift shop. Honey

Honey

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, collected from on-site beehives, could also be purchased at Nickerson Farms stores.
The majority of Nickerson Farms locations sold Skelly

Skelly Oil

Skelly Oil Company was a medium sized "major" oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Previously, about 1915, Mr. Skelly had formed Skelly Sanky Oil Company in Duncan, Oklahoma. Mr...

gasoline and other petroleum products.