“how in the world did you come up with the name “BROPFS”
Henry Bross started out as an insurance salesman during the Depression, but in 1946 he went into the mobile home business. He started a home court that still stands today, now a reminder of the industry’s early past, set up long before the HUD Code. Later, He moved into the restaurant business. He bought a restaurant called the Drive In Café (although, it was not a drive-in restaurant). He decided to put his name on it, but couldn’t decide how to spell the possessive form of Bross. (Bross’? Bross’s?)
Finally, he concluded there were too many s’s to contend with, so instead he went back to the old German spelling of the name and came up with Bropfs. After the Sign was manufactured and installed, they discovered he did not quite get the spelling correct, but the name stuck to the restaurant, and now more that 40 years later remains Bropfs
