The backstory of the 71 Club in Pumpkin Center is probably the most interesting of many interesting stories about nightclubs in Nodaway County. The Club ran from 1938 to 1941 and was in a DX Filling Station. The club offered a very eclectic range, from square dancing and white folks bands to black bands.
Its location was used for dance activities, and I think it was the site of the Pumpkin Center Fox Hunt Association dances (which I believe continued there during its tenure). The venue was often on the police logs for fights and dice gambling escapades in the parking lot. Since adultery was still a crime at the time, that crime inevitably got bundled in the charges. The charges were sometimes dropped on the condition that the violators never return to Nodaway County (I’m not including links to those stories since I don’t know the full details of their depositions).
Here are newspaper stories about the club’s history.
