The year was 1934 when a young Roy Pray, tired of "doing some mining on Tennessee Pass" just north of Leadville, decided to follow in his father's footsteps and open a small café. Like his father's café located in Canon City, Colorado, Roy also named his Leadville café "Roy's Lunch." Located at 612 Harrison Ave., Roy and his wife Leona were renting from an "obnoxious Frenchman" named Mike Berthoud who charged them $4/day. Berthoud owned a small dairy on the west end of Leadville and part of the rent deal was that Roy had to also purchase his milk from him on a daily basis.